Transcript Positive for Youth Presentation

Positive for Youth
A new approach to
cross-government policy for
young people aged 13 to 19
www.education.gov.uk/positiveforyouth
Positive for Youth is a new approach to crossgovernment policy for young people aged 13-19
 The first coalition government statement on young people
 A single vision across policies of at least 9 departments
 Supporting success not just preventing failure
 Puts young people in the driving seat to inform decisions, shape
provision and inspect quality
 Supports parents, families and communities
 Promotes local leadership and greater partnership
It has been co-produced with young people and
youth professionals through an innovative
collaborative process
Ministerial
advisory
groups
 Young people
Positive
for Youth
summit
 March 2011
 Voluntary sector  300 people
 LA sector
 8 Departments
 Business
 Co-produced
discussion
notes
Extensive
consultation
 20 discussion
papers
 Overarching
narrative
 200 responses
Scrutiny
before
publication
 Youth-led event
 Cross sector
workshop
It sets out a vision for a society that is positive
for young people
All young people will have
Supportive
relationships
Strong
ambitions
Good
opportunities
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With their parents, carers and families
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With their community
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With additional early help when it is needed
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To succeed in learning and work
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To live safe and healthy lives
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To be active in society
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In education
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For personal and social development
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To have their voice heard
The Government has set out extensive reforms
to improve education and raise participation…
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Reforming schools to increase attainment at 16
– Increasing freedom for schools, addressing poor behaviour and attendance,
reviewing the curriculum, providing additional support to disadvantaged students
through the Pupil Premium, increasing accountability including for careers advice
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Supporting young people to participate and achieve post-16
– Committed to Raising the Participation Age to 17 in 2013 and 18 in 2015 so that all
young people are engaged in education or training
– Increasing Apprenticeships and reforming vocational education through new 16-19
programmes of study
– Participation strategy: Building Engagement, Building Futures available at
www.education.gov.uk/16to19/participation
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Youth Contract
– 160,000 subsidised jobs and 250,000 work experience places for unemployed 1824 year olds
– New programme to support participation of the most disengaged 16-17 year olds
…as well as health reforms and many other
policies to improve outcomes, particularly for
disadvantaged and vulnerable young people
Health reforms
Other policies
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Health and Wellbeing Boards
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Mental health strategy
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LA responsibility for public
health
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Support for parents and families
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New public health outcomes
framework
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Improving safeguarding
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Extra support for children in care
and renewed focus on adoption
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Support for young carers
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Reducing homelessness
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Reducing violence, gangs, crime
and ASB
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Reforming the criminal justice
system for young people
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Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment
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Health and Wellbeing Strategy
to inform commissioning
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Youth voice through local
Healthwatch organisations
But the Positive for Youth vision is not just
about the role of government – everyone has a
role to play
 Young people
 Parents, carers and families
 Other adults
 The media
 Businesses
 Teachers
 Youth workers
 Other professionals
 Local authorities
 Other commissioners
 Government
And while education is key; young people’s
experience outside education is also crucial
 Services must take them into account more
Families have primary
influence and
responsibility for YP
Communities also help
YP form and pursue
their ambitions
 Government funds support to all parents;
resources LAs to offer targeted support; and is
funding new work with the most troubled families
 Young people benefit from positive role models
and relationships with peers and adults they trust
 Government is empowering communities
through the Localism Act and reforming CRBs
Services for young people, including youth work,
have a key role, particularly for the most
disadvantaged young people
 supporting young people’s personal and social development – which
includes developing important skills and qualities needed for life,
learning, and work
 making sure all young people are able to participate and achieve in
education or training
 raising young people’s aspirations and thereby reducing teenage
pregnancy, substance misuse and crime
Key principles define a good local system
A positive place for YP
Support for families
Community responsibility
Integration
Effective early help
Open markets
Innovative VCSOs
 with recognition and celebration of their achievements
 while respecting and nurturing YP’s independence
 to engage young people and sustain provision
 across commissioners, sectors, and professions
 for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people
 for publicly funded services with a stronger focus on results
 able to demonstrate impact and secure diverse income
LAs have an important strategic role
Working with young people and other local partners to:
 Assess local needs
 Listen to the voice of young people
 Support families and communities to support their young people
 Consider where public funding is most needed
 Consider which providers are best placed to deliver publicly funded
services, supporting growth in the voluntary sector
 Publicise the overall local offer of all available services
 Review and improve provision
Government is facilitating local reform…
Clarifying LAs’ duty
 Consultation in early 2012 on revised statutory guidance on
Section 507B of Education and Inspections Act 2006
Empowering young
people
 £850,000 to the British Youth Council in 2011-2013 to
enable young people to inspect and report on local services
and ‘youth proof’ government policy
Brokering business
engagement
 £320,000 to April 2013 to a consortium led by Business in
the Community to improve business brokerage
Funding sector-led
improvement
 £780,000 in 2011-13 to the Local Government Association –
including for a small number of ‘youth innovation zones’ to
test radical new system-wide approaches
 Funding to Catalyst as strategic partner for voluntary sector
…alongside ongoing investment in a range of
innovative projects
Myplace
 Government investment to complete 63 youth centres
 Hubs for a wide range of services in disadvantaged areas
 New national approach to exploiting their potential
National Citizen
Service
 A programme for 16 year olds from all backgrounds offering a
demanding personal and social development experience and
opportunity for social action in their communities
 Expanding to offer 30,000 places to young people in 2012 and
90,000 in 2014
VCS Grant Funding
 £31.4m over the two years 2011-13 to 18 innovative voluntary
organisations to pioneer and evaluate innovative approaches
to early help for young people
What this means for young people
A stronger voice
 Greater recognition of their right to have their voice heard
 A mandate to influence local decisions
 Representatives at national level advising Government
Early help to succeed
 Better schools, higher standards, support to participate in
learning and work
 A vision for reform to help local areas improve their out-ofschool services, including youth work
 Myplace youth centres as hubs for a wide range of activities
New opportunities
A more positive place
in society
 National Citizen Service for 16 year olds as opportunity for
personal and social development and social action
 Challenge to young people to play their part
 Challenge to society to recognise young people’s positive
contribution and achievements
What this means for local authorities
Services for young
people support key
outcomes
 YP may need more help than family or community can provide
 Personal and social development key to other outcomes, early
intervention needed to prevent harm & support success
New guidance to
clarify expectations
 Shift in emphasis from just positive activities to wide range of
services that can improve wellbeing
 Clear expectations on commissioning process
Young people must
have a voice
 YP have a role in defining need, shaping provision, and
auditing quality
 Support to LAs to identify most suitable local arrangements
 Local Healthwatch to give young people a voice in health
Responsibility to
improve
 Sector-led support offer funded by Government
 Youth innovation zones to disseminate learning from
innovative areas
What this means for voluntary organisations
Recognition of role in
lives of YP
 Many have expertise to engage young people, including the
most vulnerable, and impact their life chances
 Often work independent of public funding
A stronger voice
 DfE strategic partner, Catalyst, a consortium led by the
National Council for Voluntary Youth Organisations
 Youth Action Group of nine Ministers and key VCS CEOs
More open public
services
 Right to bid to take over the running of local council services
 Revised statutory guidance on service for young people to
make clear expectation that LAs seek to grow role of VCSOs
Opportunities for
innovation and growth
 Clarity on outcomes and standards of evidence
 Brokering greater support from business, and improving
access to social finance
 Opportunities through Myplace and National Citizen Service
What this means for business
Government is
tackling youth
unemployment
A responsibility to
help YP play positive
role in society
 £1bn Youth Contract to engage 16-17s in education or training
and 410,000 18-24s in subsidised jobs or work experience
 Improving apprenticeships, work experience, and vocational
education
 employers and employees can inspire and motivate young
people to realise their potential
 business can promote positive images of young people
Business case for
supporting youth
organisations
 Personal and social development key to success in education,
employability and other outcomes – services such as youth
work support this development
 Benefits of long term partnership to employees and business
Opportunities for
engagement
 Funding to consortium led by Business in the Community to
broker more relationships with VCS youth projects
 Opportunities through Myplace and National Citizen Service
What next?
 A new national set of positive measures of young people’s outcomes
– LAs free to define their own progress and success measures
 Ongoing collaboration and scrutiny
– New national youth scrutiny group and youth select committee
– Youth Action Group
– Ongoing debate and collaboration with stakeholders
 Commitment to a ‘One year On’ audit of progress
– Latest data, policy developments, good practice, programme impact
Further information and downloads are on the
web at www.education.gov.uk/positiveforyouth
 The full statement and an executive summary
 What Positive for Youth means for
– Young people
– Local authorities
– Voluntary and community organisations
– Businesses
 About the Positive for Youth collaboration
– Summary of consultation responses and list or
respondents
– How young people have been involved
Annex: The Draft Revised Statutory Guidance
The consultation
 Launched 5 March 2012 for 12 weeks - closes 25 May
 Online debate and discussion at the LGA Knowledge Hub
– https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/group/supportingservicesforyoungpeople
 Aim to publish final guidance and summary of responses ASAP after
consultation closes
 Please tell us what you think
The draft revised guidance – key points
Scope
 Focus on the full range of services that can play key role in
lives of young people, not just ‘positive activities’
Considerations
 LA’s must consider third party provision and publicise info
 Small number of additional key principles to which LAs must
have regard
Sufficiency
 Positive trends in data indicative of well-being
 Positive feedback from young people on quality and adequacy
Reasonably
practicable
 Within available resources and relative priorities
 Consideration to guidance; relative performance; access to
improvement support
Improvement
 Emphasis primarily on local accountability
 Commitment to sector-led Improvement support via CIB
Annex: The Catalyst Outcomes Framework
Why an outcomes framework?
We know personal and social
development matters but haven’t
been good at evidencing this
There has been a lack of
consistency in the definition of
these skills and qualities
It is a common assumption that
personal and social development
is hard to evidence
 The framework summarises the robust evidence
for its contribution to the hard and long term
outcomes everyone cares about, so that
commissioners and providers can have more
confidence in the long term value of personal
and social development
 The framework offers a common language for
talking coherently and consistently about the
clusters relevant capabilities
 The framework highlights and signposts users to
a range of appropriate tools that can be used to
measure and demonstrate impact
The framework comprises: a matrix of
outcomes…
…a set of clusters of capabilities…
…and a matrix of tools