Fiona PhurVoluntary & Community Sector

Specialist

POSITIVE FOR YOUTH –The Implications for the Voluntary & Community

Sector4 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

7 clusters of capabilities

Stages in using the framework

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