Introduction

A ten year strategy for all children and young people living in Northern Ireland was published in June 2006.

Copies of the strategy and the action plan are available or contact us for further information.

The aim of the strategy is to, over a ten year period, improve the lives of children and young people and to help close the gap between those who do best in life and those who do not.

It is written as a series of pledges with supporting information in relation to outcomes and performance indicators. The first children and young people’s action plan, which sets out how we intend to deliver on our strategic aims by identifying concrete and time-bound actions, was published on 20 March 2007. Each action will be linked to one or more of the outcomes on which the strategy will seek to deliver. The six outcomes are detailed overleaf.