The Children and Young People’s (CYP) Plan is a statutory requirement. It outlines our priorities and the improvements we intend to make to outcomes for children and young people. The Brighter Futures Strategy is a core element of the plan in describing the approach we have taken to identfying needs, agreeing outcomes, and then designing evidence-based activities to help achieve those outcomes. The CYP Plan also covers how the children's trust arrangements have developed, our mechanisms for performance management and co-operation with other partners. The CYP plan seeks to ensure coherence between the Brighter Futures Strategy, the children and young people’s aspects of the new Local Area Agreement and the Directorate of Children, Young People and Families Business Transformation Programme. Our vision is for Birmingham to be an inspiring place where all children and young people enjoy living, learning, developing and achieving together whilst feeling secure in a city that is child and family friendly. To achieve this vision we are transforming the way we work to focus on outcomes. This means ensuring our services are designed around achieving better outcomes for children and young people. The focus will be on those outcomes identified in the Every Child Matters report that became the Children Act 2004: be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make positive contribution and achieve economic wellbeing. Birmingham's Strategic Statement about Planning for Outcomes for children and young people includes a summary statement, the full strategy document, a Powerpoint presentation and briefing notes to accompany the presentation. These are available on the Children's Strategy page. Brighter Futures magazine is designed to inform all staff working in Children's Services in Birmingham informed about current progress towards achieving the vision for Birmingham's children and young people. There are currently two magazine issues published during each academic term. Read the magazine online. Brighter Futures Online News is a news and current affairs web service for everyone in the public, voluntary and private sectors who works with children, young people and families in Birmingham. Visit the web to see the news.