Cymorth: Children and Youth Support Fund Guidance (Issued December 2008)

Much research indicates that the most effective interventions are delivered where all the dimensions relevant to the child are addressed.  Partnership working, which can bring together statutory social services, education, and health specialists, with the voluntary sector, is proving to be an effective vehicle to do this.  Services made available on an area basis can avoid stigmatising individual families.

The Welsh Assembly Government has, following consultation, drawn up 7 Core Aims for children and young people, founded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as a basis for all its dealings with children and young people. The overall aim of Cymorth is to use partnership working and targeted investment in disadvantaged communities to promote these aims, and to impact positively, in the medium term, on indicators of well-being for children and young people.