The Vision
- Children and young people will be placed at the heart of everything the council does, with a focus on building a family approach.
- Every child will be given the best start in life, supported by families, communities and high-quality integrated services.
- We will improve children’s lives through supporting the family unit, strengthening family relationships to enable families to thrive and keep families together, and helping them to provide a safe and nurturing environment that children need.
- We will ensure access to the right services, at the right time, including access to high-quality early years provision.
Our Mission
Our promise to families living in Peterborough City and its surrounding rural villages is to deliver a Best Start to all children, giving support at its earliest point from conception through to adulthood.
Our ambition is to:
- Ensure every child has an equal chance to succeed from birth, giving support to families who need it most.
- Provide universal access to parenting support, play and family time.
- Support to develop a nurturing home learning environment
- Enable access to high-quality early years education and childcare.
We will work together in a multi-organisational approach, ensuring every contact with our services gives access to advice and guidance and will advocate on behalf of families for further support if needed.
We are committed to ensuring our provision is inclusive and accessible for all children and young people, including those with special education and disability needs. We will support every child to succeed.
We will work with all communities respectfully and without bias, listening to our communities and co-designing our services so they meet all needs equally.
We will be there with families for every step, every milestone and every year supporting our Child Friendly City pledge and giving children and young people the very best start to life.