Chester West & Chester Bespoke Support Project

The overarching objective for Chester West and Chester was to identify what ‘good’ looks like for young people as they transition to adulthood, with a view to supporting the partnership in their development of an all-ages exploitation strategy for Cheshire West & Chester. The strategy would build on an existing All-Age Contextual Safeguarding Vision agreed in March 2021. However, further discussions with the local area identified two foundational issues that needed to be addressed to ‘create the right conditions’ before moving to what ‘good’ looks like and the development of a strategy. These were: –

• Developing a shared language amongst the partnership: exploring and agreeing a shared conceptualisation of and approach to risk and need in adolescents to enable effective joint working.
  
• Developing a better understanding of ‘what exists’ in terms of service provision across the partnership with a view to enabling greater confidence in holding risk through improved multi-agency working and collaboration to support young people in transition.