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Targeted Youth Support Pathfinder Overview, May 06 © 2006 TDA Development The Targeted Youth Support Pathfinder has clear objectives and benefits for each local area © 2006 TDA Development Improved outcomes for young people Improved efficiency of service provision Improved service experience The pathfinders have also been asked to contribute to policy development and to learning from the pathfinder 2 Targeted youth services will put the young person’s ‘life journey’ at the centre of its thinking © 2006 TDA Development Ensuring prompt services to deal with severe problems and supporting transitions in and out of specialist services Specialist services Addressing current problems and causes Identify and address needs of whole child/family early Targeted services Reduce risk factors and strengthen resilience factors Young person’s journey Universal services Life events and circumstance 3 There are a number of policy issues that we will expect pathfinders to consider © 2006 TDA Development Focus on user needs Prevention and early intervention • Use of the common assessment framework to ensure “whole child” assessment • Deciding how to identify young people who would benefit from early intervention and preventative work. • Implementation of the lead professional to provide “wrap-around” support to a young person • Linking with services that carry out early intervention • Ensuring swift and appropriate service response to assessed needs • Ensuring that the TYS can deliver a range of services • Ensuring service carry out an effective outreach role to ensure that young people with problems are not missed • Linking effectively with those services carrying out early interventions (eg schools, sure start etc) to ensure seamless preventative system of support and challenge is delivered • Taking support beyond the young person to support the whole family Service redesign • Multi-agency teams membership and location, powers, governance – including access to budgets Policy issues • Support mainstream professionals in delivering preventative work including training of mainstream professionals to identify low level needs • Resourcing a more preventative approach while still meeting the needs of those at risk • Multi-agency working – integrating support across boundaries with mainstream and universal services and for children transition from child to adolescent services Best practice identification • Inclusive redesign process that builds partnership working in the children's trust • Identifying strategic and operational best practice in the current and redesigned targeted youth support service • Strategic workforce implications of the redesigned service including cultural change needed • Identifying barriers to practitioners doing what they do best • Implications for individual roles and responsibilities including change required • Building continual improvement capacity into services • Adequate monitoring of new services to understand their impact • Supporting the joint planning and commissioning agenda – good analysis of local needs and creating the case for integrating budgets 4 There are 14 local areas in the pathfinder - they cover a wide geographic and demographic spread and all have different start points © 2006 TDA Development Pathfinder sites were chosen for the following reasons: Gateshead South Tyneside York Knowsley Derbyshire Derby City Nottinghamshire Leicester City Worcestershire Hertfordshire Gloucestershire Southwark Wandsworth Hampshire 5 Strong in terms of ECM Good existing multi-agency working and partnership arrangements Involvement in related pilot activity – eg CAF/LP, CXS in children’s trusts, school partnerships Specific issue “hot spots” eg Anti-social behaviour Satisfactory youth services Progress on needs analysis Capacity to carry out the work involved Senior level involvement Geographic spread Representative of each authority type including demographic factors TYS pathfinder project overview © 2006 TDA Development Mobilise Decision points Senior management Discover Deepen 1 Launch meetings 2 Focused Interviews Deliver 3 Senior management briefing Develop plan with project manager Service delivery and users (young people/ families) Develop Senior management briefing Consolidate findings Focused interviews /Groups Young Person’s journey workshops Multi-agency Workshop Multi-agency Workshop/s Apr/ May Pathfinders aim to deliver benefits quickly 6 May/June – Sep/Oct ‘06 During Phase 1, each pathfinder has focused on key activities leading up to a Decision Point in April/May © 2006 TDA Development Focused interviews Purpose Gain insight into the potential strategic issues Young people consultations Multi-agency workshops Understand TYS Gain insight into the needs from the user potential operational perspectives issues 7 Decision point 2 Reflect learning from Discover and Deepen phases to senior management within children’s trust; get mandate for Phase 2 Phase 2, the Develop stage, has a different working approach to Phase 1 © 2006 TDA Development Critical Question Issue Analysis Problem Solving Creative Thinking Solutions Evaluation & Prioritisation Key Options Option Modelling & Testing Business Case Decision to Proceed 8 Develop stage activities © 2006 TDA Development Change Team Working Sessions Decision Point 2 Fast Start Event Options Development Workshops Evaluation Workshops Quick Wins Implementation Develop TYS Strategic Framework Project Management Stakeholder Management / Communication 9 Decision Point 3 Stakeholder Map Youth Justice/Police SHA children’s lead Police Youth Justice Board Youth Offending Teams Housing assocs Residents associations Court advocate? Councils for Charities Voluntary Services Voluntary groups Eg play Compact Housing Compact person Inclusion officers GPs Health Arts Council England (ACE) Voluntary Acute Trusts PCT children’s Teenage lead Pregnancy unit PCTs Health visitors Community paediatrician Charities DCMS Housing Home Office DH NCVO ODPM Key workers In charities Finance dept HR dept Faith groups Play workers National Local strategic LAC team Regional Youth council YP team? Youth workers Schools/ workforce Govt offices ESRAs, RAs Workforce Advisers 10 TDA COGS (governors) USERS Parents & Carers groups? LA/GO LGA C&YP board 4Children & Make Space Users Child LD team Lead therapists Key workers professionals Connexions CAMHS Transition DATs officers Local Anti-bullying BEST Strategic group Partnerships Learning EWOs Ed psychs LSPB mentors (safeguarding FE LA Member Board) Support Staff Schools (individual) for C&YP Clusters, Federations, EIPs Service User School trusts (to come) SENCOs Involvement RCAs (SUI) groups LSCs ADSS & Solace © 2006 TDA Development Assoc of Principal Community & Youth Officers LeisureArts & culture sports Youth workers Family workers DCS Sport England Unison & Social partners National Youth Agency Young Voice Continyou Other Programmes YISPs BIP BEST YIP PAYPs Childline Children’s Workforce Development Council (Estelle Morris) SureStart