Read Our Action Plan
The Child Friendly Redbridge Partnership spoke to children and young people across the borough to understand their experiences of growing up in Redbridge. We gathered their views in many different ways, through school lessons, youth club discussions, focus groups, conversations with young carers, visits to children’s centres, an online survey, and through our Child Friendly Redbridge Ambassadors.
Children and young people then chose the areas they wanted us to focus on, and we worked with them to explore what they wanted to see change in each priority area, Services and organisations in the Partnership then identified how we could work together to make those changes happen.
This work resulted in the Child Friendly Redbridge Action Plan (PDF 19MB), approved by Redbridge Council’s Cabinet in December 2021, supported by powerful statements from two of our Child Friendly Redbridge Ambassadors.
Over the past three years, we have delivered against this Action Plan, responding directly to what children and young people told us mattered most.
We are now proud to have been formally recognised by UNICEF UK as a Child Friendly Community — a milestone that recognises the voices, efforts and achievements of our children, young people, partners and communities.
Our Next Chapter
With recognition achieved, we want children and young people to know that our commitment to them doesn’t end here, we are now publishing three important documents that show the journey so far and set out our future direction:
The Child Friendly Redbridge Sustainability Plan
The Child Friendly Redbridge Sustainability Plan Easy Read version
Our Sustainability Plan outlines how Redbridge will build on the work of the Child Friendly Redbridge Partnership so far and embed and strengthen children’s rights across the borough for the next three years. It sets out how we will:
- maintain and deepen a rights based approach across services
- continue delivering improvements in children’s safety, health, and local places
- ensure young people’s voices remain central to decisions
- develop training, tools and systems so children’s rights stay embedded long-term
- support partners to continue aligning their work with the Child Friendly approach
The Sustainability Plan ensures that recognition is not the end point, but the foundation for continued improvement.
The Child Friendly Redbridge Story of Change
Our Story of Change explains how Redbridge became a Child Friendly Borough: the journey, the partnerships, and the impact. It highlights:
- how the Partnership worked collectively across sectors
- how children’s voices shaped priorities, decisions and improvements
- examples of tangible changes across safety, health, culture, places and participation
- how communities, families and young people contributed to the programme
- what we learned, what changed and why it matters
It is the story of how children’s rights moved from conversations into real action and measurable outcomes.
UNICEF UK Outcome Report
UNICEF UK’s Outcome Report provides the independent assessment of our work. It outlines:
- the evidence submitted by Redbridge
- the findings of UNICEF’s global assessment panel
- the strengths and innovations highlighted in Redbridge
- the reasons Redbridge met the standards for recognition
- areas for continued development as part of our Sustainability Plan
The Outcome Report also confirms Redbridge’s status as a UNICEF UK Child Friendly Community.