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The Children and Families Executive (CFE) includes colleagues from all seven partner organisations within Tower Hamlets Together. CFE supports the needs of children and families by working in partnership to address challenges that include the cost-of living crisis, poor housing, safety in their neighbourhoods, and the quality of education in schools.
The Children and Families Executive reports to the ‘Every Chance for Every Child’ forum, which is chaired by the Deputy Mayor for Tower Hamlets, and connects people across, health, education and social care.
The CFE partnership agreed a set of eight ambitions within the Accelerate! strategy. The ambitions are supported by four thematic sub-groups that lead on delivering joint priorities agreed by CFE. The ambitions were developed based on what children and families told us matters the most to them. The eight ambitions are;
- A great start in life
- A healthy childhood
- Support for good mental health and wellbeing
- The right support for children with special educational needs and disabilities, and their families
- Safe and secure
- Achieve their best in education and opportunities to develop their career
- Support families in the cost of living and child poverty crisis
- Champion co-production, equality, and anti-racism
The four thematic sub-groups are:
- SEND - (Special Education Needs and Disability)
- Maternity & Early Years
- CAMHS - (Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Group)
Children and Young People Pathway Development Group
Finally, the Children and Families Executive receives service specific reports as part of the partnership governance arrangements sitting under, and represented at, both the THT Local Delivery Board and the THT Executive Board.You can find the full Accelerate! strategy here: The Tower Hamlets Children and Families Partnership Strategy 2024-2028
Children and Families Executive - 2025/26 Priorities
Enhancing mental health & emotional wellbeing access and outcomes for children and young people
Mitigating poverty and economic hardship for children, young people and their families
Achieving more integrated ways of working together to improve outcomes, with a focus on early years
Improving our SEND services, experience and outcomes
Promoting healthy childhood weight
Current Priorities for Tower Hamlets Together:
- What’s happening now: Understand and oversee what is happening now, using the overarching systems outcomes as a lens.
- Cost Savings: Explore and develop transformational programmes to improve the value of what is offered to the people in Tower Hamlets.
- QI project opportunity: Identify one population to test out QI methodology, which will be learned from in future instances. (We have collectively decided to focus on Asthma for over 5s in Tower Hamlets as the target population cohort).
The intention is that our population will fit into one of these groupings, ensuring that health and social services and provisions in Tower Hamlets are better tailored to the needs of the group
