Corporate Parenting Strategy 2025
Blaenau Gwent Council has formally approved a Corporate Parenting Strategy 2025–2030 - a bold and forward-thinking plan that places care experienced children and young people at the heart of decision-making. Accompanying the strategy is a comprehensive Action Plan designed to deliver real, lasting change.
Co-produced with care experienced children and young people, staff, elected members, and a wide range of partners, the strategy sets out 11 core principles and 9 promises, aligned to the Welsh Government’s Corporate Parenting Charter – A Promise for Wales (2023), which was endorsed in August 2024 by the Cabinet Member for Social Services and the Council’s Chief Executive.
Here’s our wonderful animation ‘The Promise Tree’, a story written for our care experienced children by our Play Officer and narrated by some of Blaenau Gwent’s care experienced children.
Corporate Parenting is a legal duty for councils and their partners to act as any responsible and loving parent would. Blaenau Gwent’s new Strategy raises the bar — not only meeting statutory obligations but going further to create a culture of high aspiration, emotional support and opportunity.
The Action Plan contains 70 smart actions designed to strengthen multi-agency collaboration, improve outcomes in education, health, housing and employment, and reduce inequalities. These actions directly support the Council’s wider commitments as a Marmot Council — tackling the social determinants of health and embedding a preventative, whole-system approach.
The Strategy was shaped through extensive engagement, including workshops with care experienced young people. A wide range of voices - from social workers to service users, schools to housing providers - were central in its development.
By taking a whole-system, preventative approach, this strategy represents a major step forward in Blaenau Gwent’s journey to create better outcomes for care experienced children - and a stronger, more compassionate society for all.
- Blaenau Gwent Multi Agency Corporate Parenting Strategy 2025 - 2030
- Blaenau Gwent Corporate Parenting Action Plan 2025 - 2030
Contact Information
Family Information Service
Telephone: 01495 369610.
Email: fis@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk