YPFN: Business Planning and Development

Ready for Lift Off!

Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods 4 December 2012

Learning outcomes for today

• To reflect on the whole YPFN journey thus far and draw out key learning for sharing with a range of audiences

• To determine commissioning readiness• To assess what progress you, your organisation and

partners have made• To identify the key learning outcomes for the journey

thus far• To share good practice and learning from the journey

thus far• To prepare an action plan for the remaining timeline

The Journey So Far

The Changing National Context for Young People’s Services

A quick look at

• The “old world” pre 2009• A new government – a new set of

demands• The “new world” 2012• What next?

Does this sound familiar?“We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation...”

- Gauis Petronius circa 27 to 66 AD – Roman Senator in the reign of Emperor Nero

The “Old World”

• Every child matters – improving outcomes for children and young people

• Central performance management through a set of national indicators

• Joint Area Reviews – children’s services assessments undertaken by Ofsted

• Initiatives including Sure Start, Children’s Centres, etc.

• Funding for workforce development

The “Old World” – Young People’s Services

• Youth Matters and Youth Matters next steps• The Local Offer - Things to do, Places to go, Someone to talk

to • The Education and Inspections Act 2006 Local authority duty

to secure positive activities for young people • Positive activities = Improved outcomes• National Performance management:

– BVPIs– PSA 14

• Local authority youth service inspections undertaken by Ofsted

2010 A “New World” Key themes in the early days of the Coalition

The Big Society• Freedom • Fairness• Shared Responsibility • New ways to deliver public services

“Our mission is to dismantle Big Government and build the Big Society in its place” David Cameron on the Public Service White Paper 20 February

2011

Deficit Reduction

• 2009 /10 running at £170.8 billion per year • Local authorities’ spending cuts of between 25%

and 40% • Emphasis on delivering statutory duties –

safeguarding• Health and education protected to some degree• Non statutory services disproportionately

affected

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“Deficit reduction is my duty – reform of public services is my passion”

- David Cameron 2010

New ways to deliver public service

“all public services (save one or two obvious exceptions, such as national security and the judiciary) will be thrown open to other providers, be they private companies, charities or voluntary organisations.” Daily Telegraph on the Public Services White Paper 20 February 2011

2012 The National context for public services

• Reducing resources for the delivery of public services• Reduced inspection and centralised performance management –

local authorities encouraged to identify their own priorities and methods for achieving them

• Government focus on local authorities’ role in securing provision and services – through commissioning – no longer being the default providers of public services

• Focus on new ways for delivering public services with an emphasis on value for money, localism and Big Society solutions such as employee mutuals, social enterprise, philanthropy and volunteering

• New Community Rights – the Right to Bid and the Right to Challenge

Local Authority approaches to funding cuts

• Increasing focus on fulfilling statutory obligations e.g. safeguarding and social care

• Protecting frontline services – reducing the cost of management and backroom services

• Increased targeting of early intervention and prevention services according to need

• Focusing on outcomes, impact and evidence in planning and commissioning services

• Making tough choices and decisions

NCVO Almanac HeadlinesMarch 2012

• Peak funding: in 2007/08, £38.0 billion was the voluntary sector's highest recorded income in current prices.

• Spending is up: a real increase of £1.1 billion over the two years 2008-2010. In the face of the recession, charities expanded their services in order to meet increased demand.

• Inflation is biting: increasing prices cost the sector £2.3 billion over the two years 2008-2010.

• Over half (52%) of the children’s voluntary sector relies on statutory funding, as opposed to only 38% of the wider voluntary sector.

• The children’s voluntary sector accounts for a quarter of all charitable organisations, but only receives one tenth of the income and has much less income from corporate sources – 1% compared to 4% across all VCS organisations.

Cuts in spending on young people’s services and the VCS

• The Education Select Committee’s services for young people inquiry, found that there have been “very significant, disproportionate cuts” to local authority youth services, ranging from 20 -100%.”

• The Young Foundation report Growing interest? which estimated that VCYS income “fell by approximately £110 million last year; a loss of up to 23% of the sector’s total income.”

• 74% of the VCYS organisations surveyed had experienced a drop in income in the last 12 months, with a quarter experiencing a drop of over 25%, and 8% over half their income.

Source NCVO Comprehensive Cuts 3 (October 2011)3

Positive for Youth• ......a shared vision for how all parts of society –

including councils, schools, charities, businesses – can work together in partnership to support families and improve outcomes for young people, particularly those who are most disadvantaged or vulnerable.

• .... a common goal of young people having: • strong sense of belonging• supportive relationships, • strong ambitions• good opportunities

Positive for Youth – Key ThemesThe valuable role of services for young people

To help counter ... disadvantage, youth workers and other services for young people have an important role to play in:

• supporting young people’s personal and social development – which includes developing important skills and qualities needed for life, learning, and work;

• making sure all young people are able to participate and achieve in education or training;

• raising young people’s aspirations and thereby reducing teenage pregnancy, substance misuse and crime.

Positive for youth - Local Authority Role

• Expects local authorities to:– take a strategic lead on work with young people – involve young people in quality assurance, service design, delivery and

governance– target public funding at meeting the needs of vulnerable young people– agree priorities for publically funded services – Plan how aspirational social and personal development programmes

(youth work; NCS) will meet the needs of young people and reduce demand for specialist services.

• Retaining 507B of the Education Act 2006 -Local Authority’s duty to secure young people’s access to sufficient educational and recreational leisure time activities – new Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities issued in June 2012

The Elephant in the Room!

Few resources to ensure the aspirations in Positive for Youth are made real!

A new set of demands

Youth Services – local authorities and their VCS partners - across the country are faced with a challenging set of demands:

• Improve services within reduced resources • Provide evidence of the impact of youth work on

improving outcomes and addressing local priorities for young people and communities

• Manage change, uncertainties about funding and the associated anxieties amongst the staff team

Some concerns for the future

• Continued reduction in public spending – the pain is not over yet ... More pain on the way

• Need to continue to demonstrate cost effectiveness, value for money and high quality youth work

• More local authorities commissioning young people’s services – need for VCS to be commissioning ready – what does this mean to us?

Questions and comments?

Group work session 1

• What’s your direction of travel now• How do you see the remainder of your

journey to March 2013?• Given the changing local and national context

– what are the helping and hindering forces?• What helps and what hinders in relation to

commissioning?

Group work session 2

Being prepared for commissioning....

• What does being commissioning ready mean to your organisation in your area?

• Develop a checklist of the factors VCS organisations need to consider in order to assess their readiness for commissioning

Group work Session 3

So how commissioning ready are you?

• What support do you need to progress YPFN between now and March 2013?

• What do you need to do?• What do you need to do now?• Consider these issues and develop a set of

actions

Group work session 4Thinking of your journey so far... What messages would you like to

give to: DfE Groundwork UK Your own Groundwork Trust FPM Sanctuary Housing Youth Access The local authority Other Key Stakeholders Other Trusts interested in the YPFN model

YPFN: Business Planning and Development

Ready for Lift Off!

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