Children & Young People's Partnership
New logo, awards standard mark and strategy document .
The Blaenau Gwent Children and Young People’s Partnership (CYPP), a collective of relevant agencies within the area, is committed to making Blaenau Gwent a place where children and young people are treated as valued members of the community, whose voices are heard and needs considered across the range of policy making.
One of it's main priorities is to raise the awareness and understanding of children and young people’s rights and to improve participation in shaping the services they receive. This follows the adoption by the Welsh Assembly and UK Government of the United Nations Charter on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
GD Graphics were initailly tasked with creating a logo for the partnership which could be used as a focal identity to represent the work that they do and to foster recognition amongst children, young people and their parents/carers. Using workshop sessions where representitives of the various groups and local young people came together to discuss the ideas put forward, a series of ideas were developed. GD Graphics worked-up three alternative logos from the ideas generated and the final design was chosen.
The CYPP requested we develop the logo further into a 'Charter Mark' which is awarded to groups and organisations that work with children and young people. To achieve a charter mark Gold, Silver or Bronze these organisations need to meet the standards as laid out in the charter programme which will help inform potential users of their services.
GD Graphics also designed and illustrated the CYPP Participation Strategy, a document which identifies priorities and objectives for the partner agencies who are involved with policy, service planning, development and monitoring to include the views of children and young people. The right to participate is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Download the Strategy - 1.4mb PDF file
The WAG definition of participation is
"Participation means that it is my right to be involved in making decisions, planning, and reviewing an action that might affect me. Having a voice, having a choice."
This was reflected in a series of posters we designed on behalf of the CYPP to raise awareness amongst children and young people about their rights.
It is the right and entitlement for children, young people and their parents to be involved in the decisions that affect them. When they are involved in participation, services are be more effective, better targeted and more cost effective.