Transcript An Intro to Hillingdon Youth and Connexions Service The

An Introduction to Hillingdon Youth
and Connexions Service
An Intro to Hillingdon Youth and Connexions Service
Presentation Aim:
• To introduce colleagues to the strategic aims
and operational structures of the Youth and
Connexions Service in Hillingdon.
Context
M25
Harefield
Northwood
Ruislip
Eastcote
Ickenham
M40
South Ruislip
Uxbridge
Hillingdon
A40
Cowley
Yiewsley
Yeading
Hayes
West Drayton
Harlington
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M4
Heathrow Villages
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Hillingdon Youth and Connexions Service is:
• Located within the Council’s Education and
Children’s Services Group
• A conjoined youth and connexions service
structure, with staff working across traditional
professional boundaries with young people
• One of only 19 services in the UK accredited
with the National Youth Agency Quality Mark
Statement of Purpose
The Youth Service helps young people to learn
about themselves, others and the wider world,
through informal educational opportunities that
respond to their developmental needs,
aspirations and concerns, and combine
enjoyment, challenge and learning.
The Service works with young people in
Hillingdon, from different backgrounds and with
differing needs, aged 11 to 25, with a focus on
those aged 13 to 19.
Strategic Aims
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Be safe
Be healthy
Be active citizens
Develop life skills
Achieve their full potential
Be happy and valued for who they are
Principles of work with young
people
Our work is founded on four principles:
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Empowerment
Equality
Education
Engagement
Learning Outcomes
Through contact with the Service,
young people are able to:
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Gain knowledge
Practice skills
Develop abilities
Explore attitudes and values
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The Youth Service:
• Provides informal learning, personal and social
development opportunities to young people
aged 8-25, with a primary focus on the 13-19’s
• Provides open access learning opportunities to
all young people who live, work or study in
Hillingdon and targeted interventions to those
at risk
• Directly delivers its services
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Youth Service Statistics:
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74 FTE fieldworkers in Hillingdon (31 full-time)
Annual budget of £2.6M
7 full-time young people’s centres (by Dec ‘10)
2 mobile young people’s buses
Specialist programmes: Youth Council, Skidz,
Unloc, FIESTA, DoEA, Compass, NVQ, PVE, Arts
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Youth Worker Key Accountabilities:
• To befriend young people
• To engage young people in informal learning
opportunities relevant to their development
needs, concerns, aspirations, and interests
• To support young people to access wider support
and development services as required
• To engage at risk young people in preventative
and diversionary learning activities
Youth side
West Area Team 1
Active Involvement Team
Fountain’s Mill Young
People’s Centre, Uxbridge
North Area Team 3
Northwood Young
People’s Centre
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North
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North Area Team 1
Accredited Learning Team 1
Ruislip Young People’s Centre
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Connexions Services Team
Sterling House, Uxbridge
Senior Management Team
Connexions One Stop Shop
Hillingdon Civic Centre,
Uxbridge
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West Area Team 2
Mobile and Detached Team
Alternative Education Team 2
Alternative Education Team 3
West Drayton Young People’s
Centre
North Area Team 2
South Ruislip Young
People’s Centre
South
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Accredited Learning Team 2
Compass Community Theatre,
Ickenham
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South Area Team 2
Charville Young
People’s Centre
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South Area Team 1
Service Development Team
Harlington Young People’s
Centre
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West Area Team:
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Lead: Dettie Quirke, Area Youth Officer
Covers Uxbridge/West Drayton wards
Open access universal/targeted services
Fountains Mill and West Drayton young people’s
centres
• Tel: 01895.231192 (FMYPC) 01895.442892
(WDYPC)
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South Area Team:
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Lead: Laura Laryea, Area Youth Officer
Covers Hayes/Harlington wards
Open access universal/targeted services
Harlington and Charville young people’s centres
Tel: 01895.671955 (HYPC) 01895.671985 (CYPC)
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North Area Team:
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Lead: Laura Fitzgerald, Area Youth Officer
Covers all wards north of A40
Open access universal/targeted services
Ruislip, Northwood and South Ruislip young
people’s centres
• Tel: 01895.674.188 (RYPC)
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Mobile and Detached Team:
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Lead: Chamila Somaskandan, Area Youth Officer
Covers all wards in Hillingdon
Peripatetic bus-based and detached work
Targeted preventative/diversionary services for
young people at risk of social exclusion
• Tel: 01895.421225 (WDYPC)
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Accredited Learning Team:
• Lead: Hannah Sargeant, Area Youth Officer
• Covers all wards in Hillingdon
• Accredited learning opportunities services for
young people
• FIESTA/Duke of Edinburgh’s Award/Performance
• Tel: 01895.470.093 (RYPC)
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Active Involvement Team:
• Lead: Sylvester Swanston, Area Youth Officer
• Covers all wards in Hillingdon
• Community/democratic involvement services for
young people
• Hillingdon Youth Council
• Tel: 01895.231192 (FMYPC)
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Alternative Education Team:
• Lead: Lucy Wylde, Area Youth Officer
• ‘Unloc’ provides alternative curriculum
provision for excluded secondary school pupils
• ‘Skidz’ provides road user education
programmes for young people
• Delivers programmes from West Drayton and
Ruislip young people’s centres
• Tel: 01895.438828 (WDYPC)
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The Connexions Service is:
• An integrated service providing information,
advice, guidance, support and personal
development services for all 13-19 year olds
• Targets interventions at young people aged 1618 who are Not in Education, Employment or
Training (NEET’s)
• Delivered by contracted service providers
Connexions side
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Connexions Centre
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 Secondary schools
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Connexions Statistics:
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40 Connexions fieldworkers in Hillingdon
14 Intensive Service contracts
23,000 young people in age range
NEET target of 6.4% for period 2009-10
Unknown target of 4.7% for period 2009-10
1 Personal Advisor in every school
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Personal Advisor key accountabilities:
• To manage a caseload of young people,
supporting them to overcome barriers to
learning
• To ensuring that the young person is (re)
engaged in:
Education;
Training; and/or
Employment.
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Personal Advisors Placements include:
• Guidance service in all Hillingdon secondary
schools, and Connexions Centre (Careers for
British Teachers, CfBT)
• Youth Offending Service (YOS)
• Education Welfare (BST)
• P3
• LACE (Looked After Children)
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For more information, please contact
Senior Management Team
Youth and Connexions Service
4S/02 Civic Centre
T: 01895.558679