2. Reform Challenges
• Rapid and radical changes in local
authority responsibilities e.g. health
• Commissioning Children’s Services and
joint delivery through partnership working
• Increased demand for Children’s Services
• Funding cuts set to continue including
partners.
• Challenging inspection regimes.
3. Reform Challenges
“There is a significant risk that we are
approaching a tipping point where the only
services which can be squeezed further are
those non statutory prevention and early
intervention services which help reduce
costs further into the system.”
LGA Rewiring Public Services
4. Services for Young People
• Understanding the discrete needs of
teenagers
• Step up/step down services successfully
engaging young people
• LA role in securing the local Youth Offer
• Young people’s voice, citizenship and
community responsibilities
• Gap in meeting the needs of young adults
18+ in their transition to adulthood
5. Youth Policy
• Move to Cabinet Office gives the Youth
Sector new and different opportunities,
• Welcome the work being done on the
Statutory Guidance on Positive Activities
• Development of work that promotes the
wellbeing of young people
• The youth offer needs to embrace all
services for young people
6. Conditions for Change
• Leadership – an accountable senior officer
brokering the youth offer in partnerships
• Quality - securing outstanding services
delivered by high calibre staff, leading to
improved outcomes
• Transformed - reshaped services, new
ways of working
• Sustainable – locally appropriate and
funded
7. Conditions for Change
• Leadership – an accountable senior officer
brokering the youth offer in partnerships
• Quality - securing outstanding services
delivered by high calibre staff, leading to
improved outcomes
• Transformed - reshaped services, new
ways of working
• Sustainable – locally appropriate and
funded
Editor's Notes
The key points should be:
"What is happening now:
Importance of teenage years as distinct set of needs and services ( linked to children's and families but having a distinct focus
the Local Authority's role to secure the local youth offer
that step up/step down services are valued in relation to wider children's and family agenda
who is addressing the needs of young adults 18+ in their transition to adulthood?
that services will continue to shrink/cut
With the move of Youth Policy to the Cabinet Office:
that we welcome the current work being done on the Statutory Guidance on Positive Activities & wellbeing
that the youth offer needs to embrace all services for young people (incl. NCS)
To sustain and transform services We need:
the Senior Officer - the CHYPS member - who will be part of local partnerships, Health and well being boards etc to broker the youth offer with young people, community, voluntary organisations and business
who will also secure quality services delivered by high calibre staff
That this leadership is vital to deal with cuts, reshape services and take hold of the opportunities that present themselves - new ways of working, community sector partnerships, mutuals etc.
And finally (particularly for Rushanara) the hope that we can build a consensus around this approach of: the statutory guidance, a person to secure it who is held to account, that can be evidenced, is of quality and appropriate to the locality