1 / 15

Priorities for Youth Published October 2013

Priorities for Youth Published October 2013. Department funded Youth Service?. Department invests approx £40million. Six different funding schemes ( ie 5 ELBs and YCNI) Approx 30%, or 160,000 , aged 4-15 access youth services annually

dorothy-williamson
Download Presentation

Priorities for Youth Published October 2013

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Priorities for YouthPublished October 2013

  2. Department funded Youth Service? • Department invests approx £40million. • Six different funding schemes (ie 5 ELBs and YCNI) • Approx 30%, or 160,000, aged 4-15 access youth services annually • Over 1,800 Voluntary groups, Over 100 statutory youth clubs/units and 13 outdoor education centres • 22,000+ volunteers, circa 1,700 part time and full time staff

  3. Departmentfunded youth work? • Education policy is a matter for the Minister of Education. • Youth work is part of the education continuum . • The Department seeks the same long term positive outcomes for children from youth work as it does from schools. • Youth work has distinctive characteristics which set it apart from educational provision. • Safe, fun opportunities for young people to develop personally and socially outside the formal school environment • Opportunities for marginalised and disengaged young people to reconnect with education in a setting of their choosing and works with them to overcome barriers to learning

  4. Department of Education’s Vision “Every young person achieving his or her full potential at each stage of his or her development”

  5. Department’s overarching goals • Raising standards for All; and • Closing the performance Gap, Increasing Access and Equality Enabling Goals • Developing the Non formal Education Workforce • Improving the Non-Formal Learning Environment • Transforming Non-Formal Education Management

  6. Strategic Aims of Youth work in support of Department goals • To contribute to raising standards for all and closing the performance gap between the highest and lowest achieving young people by providing access to enjoyable, non-formal learning and opportunities that help young people to develop enhanced social and cognitive skills and overcome barriers to learning. • To continue to improve the non-formal learning environment by creating inclusive, participative settings in which the voice and influence of young people are championed, supported and evident in the design delivery and evaluation of programmes.

  7. Achieving these strategic Aims requires: Alignment with the strategic priorities for education. Proportionate targeting of services based on need. A clear focus on outcomes.

  8. Who is provision aimed at? • Children and young people aged 4-25 • Specific focus on the 9-18 age range • Generic Provision • Targeted provision:- for those most in need.

  9. 1. Raising standards for all • Strategic planning of youth services in response to need. • Regional Youth Development Plans (RYDPs) implemented via annual plans. • Quality assurance systems. • Management information system. • Annual Report for youth work.

  10. 2. Closing the Performance Gap, Increasing Access and Equity • Distribution funding model. • Funding for non-targeted/generic provision • Targeted provision for specific groups/needs. • Improved access to, and longer opening times for, units in disadvantaged and/or interface areas • Outreach and detached youth workers deployed in response to need

  11. 3. Developing the Non Formal Education Workforce • A Practice Development Unit will be established. • Support will be available to address development needs and Inspectorate recommendations • Improved access to support for young people with additional needs • Proportionate Service Level Agreements.

  12. 4. Improving the non-formal learning environment • Baseline audit of DE funded youth provision. • Strengthening of young people’s participation. • Young people will be involved in the design, delivery and evaluation of programmes • Small grants scheme administered by young people for young people

  13. 5. Transforming Non-Formal Education management • Funding decisions to be on the basis of needs identified in the RYDP. • Only services clearly link to the delivery of the RYDP will be funded. • There will be support for schemes to enable RVYOs to share office functions, amalgamate or cluster

  14. To summarise, Priorities for Youth : • Framework for the future delivery of youth work in education. • Youth service delivery and funding will be designed around an assessment of need to ensure that generic provision is complemented with a targeting of services for those most in need. • Participation of young people • Address the needs of the workforce, including volunteers. • Focus on outcomes and progress of young people.

More Related