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Fiona Phur Voluntary & Community Sector Specialist. POSITIVE FOR YOUTH – The Implications for the Voluntary & Community Sector 4 October 2012. The RYWU. History Projects Networks Involvement – membership Forthcoming events - conference. Current Context.
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Fiona PhurVoluntary & Community Sector Specialist POSITIVE FOR YOUTH –The Implications for the Voluntary & Community Sector 4 October 2012
The RYWU • History • Projects • Networks • Involvement – membership • Forthcoming events - conference
Current Context • Radical policy reforms; education, health and welfare • Structural reforms: local government, youth justice etc • Positive for Youth • Policy that affect the operating environment: • Early intervention • Youth unemployment • Localism • Benefits reviews
Positive for Youth • Reflects the Government’s Big Society agenda • Shared vision of support to young people • Aims to develop stronger local communities and families • Promotes youth voice • Retains duty on local authorities for sufficient provision • Recognition of early intervention • VCSE providers to assume more responsibility for providing services through local commissioning
Positive for Youth – Summary of commitments • Empowering young people • Parenting support • Raising participation age in education • Participate in work via Youth Contract • Promoting Apprenticeships • Supporting local authority commissioners
Positive for Youth – Summary of Commitments • Youth Voice • MyPlace • NCS • Cadet forces in schools • Public sector investment • Social finance
Using the Outcomes Framework • Findings of Education Select Committee 2010 • Need to demonstrate the difference that services for young people make • Need to articulate the value that services for young people produce for young people and for society more broadly • The Outcomes Framework is designed to support understanding and measurement of the connections between intrinsic personal and social development outcomes and longer-term extrinsic outcomes • A model of seven interlinked clusters of social and emotional capabilities • Supported by a strong evidence base demonstrating the links to longer-term outcomes • A matrix of available tools to measure these capabilities
Useful contacts • www.learning-southwest.org.uk ( go to Regional Youth Work pages) • http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/communityrights/righttochallenge/ ( for new rights under Localism Act 2011) • https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/DFE-00198-2011.pdf ( Positive for Youth Executive Summary) • http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/big-society (Cabinet Office - look out for TUPE consultation) • http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/tcomes_Framework_draft_final_for_publication_3.pdf
Visit our web-site at www.learning-southwest.org.uk