Croydon children and families partnership board

How it works

The Croydon children and families partnership board is made up of representatives at the highest level of agencies and organisations working with children and families in the borough. 

The partnership board:

• sets the strategic direction for the services for children in Croydon
• monitors performance
• promotes partnership working at all levels

This includes joint commissioning of services where a partnership response is beneficial.

Download the children and families partnership terms of reference (Word, 35.5KB) 

Benefits of the partnership board

These include:

• delivering a unique programme of partnership work tackling cross-cutting challenging issues, improving outcomes for children and families in the borough
• valuing the role that all play and respecting the contribution of all partners through a participative approach enabling informed decision-making
• ensuring that everything we do, and the work of our partners, is informed by the views of children, young people and families themselves

Members of the partnership board

The Croydon children and families partnership board is made up of representatives at the highest level of agencies and organisations working with children and families in the borough. It sets the strategic direction for the services for children in Croydon, monitors performance and promotes partnership working at all levels which includes joint commissioning of services where a partnership response is beneficial.

Croydon CFP Board membership – 2019 (PDF, 102 KB)

Working together to safeguard children

Working Together sets out the legal requirements that health professionals, social workers, police, education professionals and others working with children must follow.

It is advised that all professionals working with children should read the Croydon Partnership Early Help Network Delivery Plan 2019 to 2021 (PDF, 1.8KB).