MISSION

“To improve the quality of children’s, young people, and families’, life experiences.”

Our mission is based on the beliefs that:
• All children and young people have a right to good quality play, the right to express views, and have them heard and the right to active participation in the community
• It is our aim to ensure that whatever the family’s choice the child’s experiences are of good quality
• Good partnership working can achieve more.

VISION

Our vision for the future:

• All children and young people feel valued, safe, free and are supported to explore and develop to their potential.
• All children and young people are provided with access, and freedom of choice, to good quality experiences that underpin the foundations for life.
• Children and young people have independence, confidence, and fun, take responsibility for themselves, and view the world and themselves in a positive light.  A world where all children and young people are valued and where their potential is maximised.

Our vision for Children’s Links:

Children's Links is recognised nationally and internationally as a leader and innovator for children, young people and their families by children and young people, parents, carers, teachers and trainers, local and national government:
• For the provision, support and promotion of improvements to the quality of life experiences for children, young people, families and communities
• For assertive, motivated employees who have fun and achieve

VALUES

The following value statements reflect the key values of the organisation:

• Children and young people’s best interests always come first
• We will deliver quality services for all customers while achieving outcomes and targets
• Our services will focus on positive outcomes for children and young people
• Consultation and involvement of our staff, children, young people and families, as well as the broader community, informs our work and helps us make better decisions
• We will provide a learning, supportive, respectful and trusting environment where people achieve and develop in their role
• We believe in taking responsibility for our actions, successes and our failures, and learning from them
• We aim for a confident, co-operative, assertive work force who are valued, work well, achieve and have fun
• We believe in a fair play culture where people give and take
• We are committed to equality and diversity and promote opportunities for all

The UN convention of the Rights of the Child is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights – civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights.

Children's Links is an organisation with objects that reflect this view of the child as a full member of society.