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Barnsley in Depth Children’s and Young People’s Report – 2008/09 Information1 Introduction, Scope and PurposeThis is the fifth edition of the of Barnsley in Depth: Children’s and YoungPeople Information” reports. This report draws together a wide range of datarelating to children and young people to provide a central resource forresearch and information purposes. The key objectives of this report are to:• Increase local awareness of the information that is now available;• Provide robust evidence that can be used to support policies andprogrammes;• Support the needs assessment underpinning planning andcommissioning;• Help in targeting resources, performance management and lobbyingfor funding;• Assist in monitoring the activities and initiatives of the locality-basedWellbeing Partnerships, the Children and Young People’s Plan and theLocal Area Agreement.This report aims to support the work of the Council as the Barnsley Children’sServices Authority, the work of the Barnsley Children and Young People’sTrust (formerly Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership) and thework of partner organisations. These include local education, social care andhealth services, together with a wider range of agencies whose work impactson children within the Authority’s area.The report is also intended to feed into the One Barnsley SustainableCommunities Plan and Local Area Agreement, and assist with the Council’sand other partners’ planning strategies.1.1 BackgroundThe Barnsley in Depth Children and Young People’s Report combinesinformation from Council services and various local agencies. The informationin this report is presented mainly at ward level and includes maps, graphs andbasic statistical analysis. Information has been provided for the new wards(post June 2004) however ‘Under 18 conceptions’ and data from the LearningSkills Council only reflect the old (pre June 2004) wards. This is becauseeither the information system has not been updated or the data is based on arate over a period of time and therefore needs to be calculated on the oldgeography. A systematic graphical analysis by ward quintiles (i.e. five blocksof wards ranging from most deprived to least deprived) has been adopted toillustrate the effects of deprivation.A number of agencies and members of the One Barnsley Research Networkhave worked together on this report to identify and provide available datasources relating to children and young people under the age of 24 (SeeAppendix A for contact details).The information contained in this report relates mainly to 2008/09. This will beupdated annually by the Barnsley MBC’s Central Research Team with the- 6 -