Targeted Youth Support Pathfinder

1. Targeted Youth Support Pathfinder Overview, May 06

2. The Targeted Youth Support Pathfinder has clear objectives and benefits for each local area Improved outcomes for young people Improvedefficiencyof serviceprovision Improved serviceexperience The pathfinders have also been asked to contribute to policy development and to learning from the pathfinder

3. Targeted youth services will put the young person’s ‘life journey’ at the centre of its thinking 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

4. There are a number of policy issues that we will expect pathfinders to consider • Focus on user needs • Use of the common assessment framework to ensure “whole child” assessment • Implementation of the lead professional to provide “wrap-around” support to a young person • 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 • Taking support beyond the young person to support the whole family • Prevention and early intervention • Deciding how to identify young people who would benefit from early intervention and preventative work. • Linking with services that carry out early intervention • Ensuring swift and appropriate service response to assessed needs • 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 • 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 Policy issues • Service redesign • Multi-agency teams membership and location, powers, governance – including access to budgets • Multi-agency working – integrating support across boundaries with mainstream and universal services and for children transition from child to adolescent services • Inclusive redesign process that builds partnership working in the children's trust • Strategic workforce implications of the redesigned service including cultural change needed • Implications for individual roles and responsibilities including change required • Supporting the joint planning and commissioning agenda – good analysis of local needs and creating the case for integrating budgets • Best practice identification • Identifying strategic and operational best practice in the current and redesigned targeted youth support service • Identifying barriers to practitioners doing what they do best • Building continual improvement capacity into services • Adequate monitoring of new services to understand their impact

5. There are 14 local areas in the pathfinder - they cover a wide geographic and demographic spread and all have different start points • Pathfinder sites were chosen for the following reasons: • 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 South Tyneside Gateshead York Knowsley Nottinghamshire Derbyshire Leicester City Derby City Worcestershire Hertfordshire Gloucestershire Southwark Wandsworth Hampshire

6. TYS pathfinder project overview Mobilise Discover Deepen Develop Deliver Decision points 1 2 3 Senior management Launch meetings Focused Interviews Senior management briefing Senior management briefing Develop plan with project manager Consolidate findings Service deliveryand users (young people/ families) Focused interviews /Groups Young Person’s journey workshops Multi-agency Workshop Multi-agency Workshop/s Apr/May May/June – Sep/Oct ‘06 Pathfinders aim to deliver benefits quickly

7. During Phase 1, each pathfinder has focused on key activities leading up to a Decision Point in April/May

8. Issue Analysis Problem Solving Creative Thinking Phase 2, the Develop stage, has a different working approach to Phase 1 Critical Question Solutions Evaluation & Prioritisation Key Options Option Modelling & Testing Business Case Decision to Proceed

9. Develop stage activities Change Team Working Sessions Decision Point 2 Fast Start Event Options Development Workshops Evaluation Workshops Decision Point 3 Quick Wins Implementation Develop TYS Strategic Framework Project Management Stakeholder Management / Communication

10. National NCVO ODPM Charities Stakeholder Map DCMS Youth Justice/Police Regional Housing Arts Council England (ACE) Police Local strategic Councils for Voluntary Services Home Office Voluntary Sport England Assoc of Principal Community & Youth Officers Voluntary groups Eg play Housing assocs Youth Justice Board Youth Offending Teams Compact Residents associations Faith groups Key workers In charities DH 4Children & Make Space Housing Acute Trusts Users Compact person Court advocate? SHA children’s lead Leisure- Arts & culture sports GPs National Youth Agency Inclusion officers USERS Youth workers PCT children’s lead Teenage Pregnancy unit PCTs Family workers Parents & Carers groups? Play workers Young Voice Health visitors DCS YP team? Health Youth workers Community paediatrician LAC team Other Programmes YISPs BIP BEST YIP PAYPs Youth council Finance dept HR dept Continyou Child LD team therapists Lead professionals Key workers SureStart CAMHS Connexions Charities DATs Transition officers BEST Local Strategic Partnerships LA/GO Anti-bullying group EWOs Learning mentors Ed psychs Local delivery Local Strategic Regional National LSPB (safeguarding Board) LA Member for C&YP Support Staff FE (individual) Schools Clusters, Federations, EIPs School trusts (to come) Childline Service User Involvement (SUI) groups SENCOs Children’s Workforce Development Council (Estelle Morris) RCAs LSCs Schools/ workforce ADSS & Solace LGA C&YP board Govt offices ESRAs, RAs Workforce Advisers Unison & Social partners COGS (governors) TDA