Read our action plan

The Child Friendly Redbridge Partnership spoke to over 2,000 children and young people across Redbridge about their experience of living in the borough. These conversations took place in different ways including:

  • Lessons plans in primary schools (thank you to Highlands Primary and John Bramston Primary for helping design these)
  • Coaches at Frenfords and Essex Boys and Girls Clubs talking to their young people for us
  • Meeting with three groups of one hundred 16 year olds through the National Citizens Service
  • Running focus groups with young people who have caring responsibilities
  • Visiting children’s centres to talk to parents and children
  • Running an online survey
  • Asking our Child Friendly Redbridge Ambassadors to talk to their peers on our behalf

From these discussions, we asked the children and young people to choose the areas they wanted us to focus on.  We then spent the summer of 2021 asking the children and young people what they would like to see improve or change in the borough in each of these priority areas. The services and groups that make up the Child Friendly Redbridge Partnership then identified what we could do collectively to make that change happen.

The result of all this work is the Child Friendly Redbridge Action Plan. The Action Plan was approved at Redbridge Council’s Cabinet in December 2021 by Councillors with two of our Child Friendly Redbridge Ambassadors submitting statements about why the Action Plan was important to them. You can see the plan being approved and the statements being read out at Cabinet.

Read the Child Friendly Redbridge Action Plan (PDF 19MB)

Read the Easy Read version of the Child Friendly Redbridge Action Plan (PDF 502KB)

We want to share the Action Plan widely because we want to let children and young people in Redbridge know what about the commitment we have made to them. We want them to know that we listened to what they said and we acted on it. We want them to know that their voice and experience is important and should be at the heart of everything that the Partnership does.

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