Mr. Jim Breslin:

It builds on a ten-year strategy that has been in place and which is starting to become the language used in the children sector. It concerns outcomes and, as Deputy Troy mentioned, the next challenge is to move from high level outcomes in education, health and economic security to a five-year strategy with a shorter time horizon. With this we will be able to put more concrete deliverables into the process, as with a ten-year framework, the question is very much where we would like to be; it is a visionary piece. We now have the vision and we would like concrete strategies with action points over five years.

This year we will publish a framework and below that we will start to produce the underlying strategies for each of the age cohorts. We will start with the early years strategy, which will have very concrete commitments in an accountability framework. We will also have a youth strategy and one for middle years. We hope to address the kinds of obvious concerns of people, as we do not want to produce a document and put it on a shelf. This operational document will be used across government in order to try to deliver commitments.