Supporting the next generation
With the right conditions, every child can flourish.
"Empowering every child, young person and family in Wallsend to fulfil their potential". We do this by being a catalyst for local change, actively tackling inequalities hand in hand with children, families, schools, charities, community centres, healthcare and other services.
Our Core Strategic Objectives
Growing Collective Impact
We seek the best possible outcomes for children and young people from cradle to career, working with our community and a wide range of partners in an atmosphere of shared responsibility to enable the children and young people of Wallsend to
thrive.
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Increasing Collective Influence
We play a pro-active role both supporting and challenging all those who share in the vision of the Children’s Community to shape and scale up the number, quality, consistency and sustainability of opportunities that are being accessed by children, young people and families in Wallsend.
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Securing Essential Resources
We work to ensure that Wallsend Children’s Community has all it needs in terms of secure, sustainable funding and a dynamic and versatile team of staff and volunteers, many of whom will be ‘qualified by experience’.
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Our Vision for Wallsend's Children & Families
Vision
Empowering every child, young person, and family in Wallsend to fulfill their potential (ages 0-19)
Core Themes
- Getting things right early
- Living a fit and healthy life
- Realising aspirations
Key Outcomes
Good communication, social/emotional development, physical/mental health, happiness, broadened horizons, agency, and self-efficacy.
Core Team's Role
Use evidence to help, convene, and facilitate the Children’s Community, focusing on:
- Local collective intelligence and insight
- Building capability for community and system co-design
Team Principles
Neutrality, independence, trust, credibility, and access to data infrastructure.
Impact Assessment Framework
Impact Assessment Framework assesses place-based systems change. It includes individual, relationship, and systems level impacts.
Layer 1
focuses on immediate individual impact through various evaluations.
Layer 2
measured the bidirectional impact between individuals and organisations.
Layer 3
assesses the impact of work on organisations and the broader system.