Three independent public offices make up the Children’s Tribunal Service for Guernsey and Alderney:
- Child, Youth and Community Tribunal
- Office of the Children’s Convenor
- Children’s Convenor and Tribunal Board
Our purpose is to make decisions that help improve the lives of children and young people in Guernsey and Alderney and to:
- Provide a single point of referral for all concerns about children and young people at risk
- Ensure that enquiries into children and young people’s circumstances take place
- Make important legal decisions to ensure that children and young people receive the support and services that they need to be safe, loved, respected and responsible
- Uphold the rights of children, young people & their families
- Recruit, train and support members of the Child, Youth and Community Tribunal
- Influence change and drive improvements in the broader landscape of child protection, welfare and rights.
Click here for our introductory guide, or here to download our previous strategic report from 2017-2020.
We will take a balanced approach to measuring performance focusing on three key areas:
1. Strategic Implementation?
Are we achieving our strategic aims?
2. Organisational Effectiveness
How well are our operations working?
3. Organisational Efficiency
Are we operating efficiently?
Care
- Delivering our services in an environment that is supportive, traumainformed and non-adversarial where rights are respected and upheld.
- Ensuring our staff and Tribunal members are valued and supported
Connect
- Increasing participation and engagement of children and young people in the development of our services and in the decisions made about them
- Nurturing our relationships with children, young people and their families, our partners, the community and the environment recognising that relationships are the agents of change
Collaborate
- Working effectively with our partners to agree protocols and standards to improve outcomes for children and young people and ensure they get the right help at the right time
- Share information and data to inform understanding and raise awareness of the roles of the Tribunal and Convenor and the issues faced by children and young people within our communities
Change
- Continue to develop effective services in imaginative and innovative ways
- Increase our use of technology to enable more connections to take place electronically or by remote means
The Annual Business Plans of the Convenor and President will set out the actions that will be delivered each year to progress these strategic aims. We will review these action plans and our performance against them on a quarterly basis.