Children and Young People's Working Group

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORKING GROUP

The Conference Room, Nan Tait Centre, Barrow-in-Furness Date: 9th December 2011

Apologies Cllr David Marcus, John Macilwraith, Roger Exley, Charlotte Chorlton

Present Cllr Tina Macur, Cllr Kevin Hamilton, Cllr Anne Burns, Cllr L Hammond, Karen Johnson, Cllr L McKenna, Graham Bassett, Debbie Holt, Helen Bunting, Mandy Nightingale, John Barrett, Shannon Riley, Michelle McAveeney

Ref. No. Action Declarations of Interest 09/12/02 There were no declarations of interest.

Minutes of Previous Meeting 09/12/03

The minutes were agreed as a true record.

Matters Arising

Cllr T Macur has agreed to forward information regarding scrutiny review of swimming pools to members TM

The following grants from the previous meeting were discussed and members agreed to release the funds accordingly

Cumbria Youth Alliance - £1,500.00 The Birchall Trust - £ 896.85

Nacro – Helen Bunting attended and gave a short presentation discussing plans

and a provisional timetable with members. Members released funds of £10,000.00 as requested for this project

Drop Zone – This grant has again been deferred to allow further investigation.

Furness Youth Council 09/12/04

Shannon Riley from the Youth Council gave the group a detailed update on their progress and distributed a handout to the group. - attached

Points noted:

 The Youth Council plan will be available to view on 12/12/11  19 members in total who meet every 2 to 3 weeks

 21 applications received for the £10k Helping Hand  Look forward to working with members in the near future

09/12/05 Peer Challenge

John Barrett gave a short presentation to members explaining about the project and distributed further details – attached

Children in Care Councils 09/12/06

Debbie Holt gave a short presentation to members and distributed a handout. – attached. It was noted that there are 126 Local Authority children in the Barrow area and 41 in Kendal and surrounding areas. It was queried whether children in residential schools were included in the project. Cllr Anne Burns has agreed to AB investigate this and report back to the group at the next meeting.

Debbie asked for one of the members to be nominated as a champion, Cllr Anne

Burns nominated Cllr Lisa Hammond, which was seconded by Cllr Tina Macur.

Recommendation to Local Committee – Cllr Lisa Hammond as champion for Children in Care Councils

09/12/07 Inclusion Review

John Barrett gave a short presentation to members regarding the review.

Points Noted:

 Policy has been in place for 10 years  Green paper will look at ways to improve  Cost of funding external places is very high  A third of children are permanently placed in the PRU

 Finding school places for the children is proving to be a slow process  Full time Senco’s in schools is proving to be a need  Transition is working very well

John has agreed to keep members updated on the progress of the review

0-19 Grant Budget Update and Grant Requests 09/12/08

Local Committee has a 0-19 budget of £106,584 of which £50,000 has been allocated for grants. The amount available for grants requests at this meeting is:

£9,034.79

3 grant requests were presented (detailed grant reports are appended to these minutes). Following consideration of each, Members agreed to recommend the

amounts as detailed below to Local Committee.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The Children & Young People’s Working Group would like to recommend support for the following groups from the 0-19 budget:

Furness & South Lakes Looked After Children – Recreation & outdoor activities £5,500.00

Furness School Sports – Top up swimming £1,400.00 – Recommend group apply to the South Lakeland Children & Young People’s Working Group for the remaining £350 for Ulverston Victoria High School.

Furness Young Carers – Purchase equipment £1,070.88 – Recommend group apply to the South Lakeland Children & Young People’s Working Group for the remaining £278.

Ireleth & St Peter’s CE Primary School – Solardome £4,000 – This to be refused as classroom provision should come from the school budget.

Any Other Business

09/12/09 Nicola Jackson and Mandy Nightingale gave members an update on the Looked After Children programme. At present there are 126 looked after children in the

Barrow area.

09/12/10 Date and time of next meeting

Friday 10th February 2010, Nan Tait Centre, 4.00pm

Barrow Local Committee Children & Young People’s Working Group 0-19 Funding

th Meeting Date 9 December 2011

Name of Organisation Furness School Sports

Project description and benefit to the community

Furness School Sports is hosted at Furness Academy as a base to operate from. Furness School Sports has been running a very successful Top-Up Swimming Programme. The Programme works with Year 7 pupils who were unable to successfully swim 25 metres through the provision offered in Primary School. These pupils are mostly SEN pupils who didn’t respond well to working in larger swimming groups.

The Top-Up Swimming Programme works with a small group of approximately 10 pupils from each secondary school. The pupils are supported in the water by an older ‘Buddy’ from their school. It is designed to provide young people with a valuable life skill and enable them to engage in leisure activities in and around water.

The Top-Up Swimming Programme is an intensive week long programme which has a success rate of approximately 85%. For those pupils who require a few more lessons, there is an option of a further week of intensive lessons. This is offered to those pupils who it is felt will benefit from the additional lessons. Both the Year 7 pupils who engage in the Top-Up Swimming and the older ‘Buddies’ grow in confidence through the programme.

The Schools that the group works with are Ulverston Victoria High School, St Bernards, Walney School, Furness Academy and Dowdales. The cost of the Programme is £250 per school x 5 for initial first week of intensive swimming = £1250 plus an additional £500 to provide the additional lessons if required. This cost covers pool hire (with life guards), swimming teachers’ costs and transport for pupils.

The Programme is not part of the Schools curriculum and funding for the programme was previously provided by the Government through the School Sport Partnerships. This funding has now been abolished through funding cuts and therefore without funding the Top-Up Swimming Programme would not be able to continue.

With the support of the 0-19 funding this would allow the group to run the Top-Up Swimming Programme for the current School year. However, there is a need to look at how this Programme could be funded in future years and the Children and Young People’s Working Group is also being asked whether this can be investigated through other sources.

Total Cost of Project £1,750.00 Grant requested £1,750.00

Date the project commences Wards: January 2012 All Source(s) of other funding

Members will be aware that Ulverston Victoria High School sits under the South Lakeland area and as the amount is £350 each School including additional costs members may wish to request the South Lakeland CYPWG to fund this School.

Does the project meet any of the following priorities? Benefits local community within Borough Demonstrates community support & evidence of need Demonstrates a range of funding support Increase opportunities/membership Officer’s comments / recommended conditions if grant approved

Officer: Recommendation: Alison Meadows £1,750.00 Amount Approved for Payment: £……………………… Signed: …………………………………………………. Name: …………………...……………………………… Date: …………………………………. Barrow Local Committee Children & Young People’s Working Group LC Priorities Funding

th Meeting Date 9 December 2011

Name of Organisation Ireleth St Peter’s CE Primary School

Project description and benefit to the community

The PTA of Ireleth St. Peter's Primary School is in the process of raising funds for a solardome glasshouse. Solardome glasshouses are outdoor classrooms which enable teaching to take place outside yet remain inside in a warm and natural environment. The idea being to bring the children closer to nature and the outside. The solardomes can be used at any educational stage and enable education on learning on a variety of subjects such as maths, science and linking to horticulture. This project is not limited to the School and will be accessible to the wider community. The project is also not something that the local educational authority would fund as part of its LEA funding that the School would automatically receive.

The PTA has already installed a concrete driveway and set of steps with handrail to access the area where the

Solardome would be installed.

Total Cost of Project £31,166 Grant requested £4,000.00

Date the project commences Wards: January 2012 Dalton & District Source(s) of other funding

The PTA has managed to raise £10k through its School Capital and School Revenue Fund. They have also raised £1,166 and £1,000 from County Councillor Jill Heath’s £12k Revenue Fund.

Does the project meet any of the following priorities?

Benefits local community within Borough Demonstrates community support & evidence of need Demonstrates a range of funding support Increase opportunities/membership Officer’s comments / recommended conditions if grant approved

Officer: Recommendation: Alison Meadows £4,000.00

Amount Approved for Payment: £……………………… Signed: …………………………………………………. Name: …………………...……………………………… Date: ………………………………….

Barrow Local Committee Children & Young People’s Working Group 0 - 19 Funding

th Meeting Date 9 December 2011

Name of Organisation Furness and South Lakes Looked After Children

Project description and benefit to the community Furness and South Lakes are responsible for Looked After Children in the 0-17 age range. There is a total of 168 looked after children of whom 90 are from the Barrow area, 71 of which are in the 0-17 age bracket. The group wishes to provide funded placements for 25 of the looked after children and young people to participate in play, recreation and outdoor activities in partnership with Brathay Trust. Evidence and research carried out on such projects has shown to be extremely positive for looked after children and young people. They feel valued being part of a group made up solely of other young people in care.

 They don’t feel the odd one out and appreciate the unique empathy and collectiveness within the

group.

 The young people value the opportunity of getting away on a residential to share new experiences.

 Developing confidence and self-worth assisted through school attendance and attainment. Using experiential activities helped young people to realise they have control become empowered.  Young people valued the neutral role of the youth worker. The group will get expressions of interest and then look at the mix of children and availability. If they then have too many, they will draw from a hat. Their aim is to have sustainability after the project so would look at involvement in another way around setting up a group for those who cannot attend. The two projects that the organisation wishes to offer in partnership with Brathay Trust have been specifically designed to make a positive impact on the lives of the 25 young people. These projects are not funded by mainstream finance and therefore not normally available for this group of young people. The group will run one project aimed at 5-10 year olds called ‘A night at the museum’ which will provide an opportunity for the children to participate with their carers in 6 x 1 hour craft session creating pieces for the museum and 1 x 24 hour residential at Brathay to comprise of assembling the crafts made previously and craft workshops at Brathay in the Theatre; fun collective outdoor activities such as paddling whalers on the lake and then coming together with photographs from the day over dinner and create a memory folder. The group will run their second project aimed at 11-17 year olds called ‘The Risk Taker’ which will work with young people to identify and assess risks. The young people will explore risk from multiple perspectives through experiential activities and relate to real life situations. They will participate in 3 x 2 hour planning session in the run up to the residential weekend where young people will design the residential programme, start to explore what risk is and how it differs for building, build rapport and peer understanding amongst the group; 48 hour residential to include challenging outdoor activities that require people to take risks out of their comfort zone; use of role play to explore choices and Total Cost of Project £8,000.00 Grant requested consequences of real life risks; use group work to develop peer understanding and support networks. 1 x evaluation Datesession the projectto identify commences how to take the learning back into everyday life and establish Wards: personal plans as well as developing support networks for the future. Costs for the projects comprise of Community Programme and residential and Sevaluationource(s) of feesother and funding transport costs.

Total Cost of Project £8,000.00 Grant requested £5,500.00

Date the project commences Wards January 2012 All

Source(s) of other funding

Bursary from Brathay Trust £2,500.00

Officer: Recommendation: Alison Meadows £5,500.00 Amount Approved for Payment: £……………………… Signed: …………………………………………………. Name: …………………...……………………………… Date: ………………………………….

Barrow Local Committee Children & Young People’s Working Group 0 - 19 Funding

th Meeting Date 9 December 2011

Name of Organisation Furness Young Carers

Project description and benefit to the community The group is applying for funding to purchase up-to-date equipment for 2 of their weekly clubs. The equipment they wish to purchase is not part of their basic running costs that they receive from CYSS for their staffing costs.

The young carers have regular termly planning sessions and they feel that the equipment is not sufficient for the number of attendees they have. There are currently 188 young carers with 154 from the Barrow area and 40 from the

South Lakeland area.

The young carers undertaking many caring responsibilities at home including household chores, personal care, emotional support, giving medication and supporting young siblings.

The Furness Young Carers project provides young people a break from their caring responsibilities and all the young carers have an initial assessment of their needs to enable the group to then plan its services.

The new equipment will provide the young carers an opportunity to participate in normal childhood activities which they may not be able to do so at home due to financial or time commitments. Equipment that was identified by the young carers themselves consists of DSI consoles, DSI games, TVs and Karaoke Equipment.

Members may wish to award the funding requested from their grants pot for all the young carers or request that South

Lakeland CYPWG award funding for the 40 young people. If members took the latter approach this would equate to an award for the Barrow Borough area of £1070.88 and a request to come from South Lakeland of £278.12 based on a per head allocation.

Total Cost of Project £10,000.00 Grant requested

Date the project commences Wards:

Total Cost of Project £10,000.00 Grant requested £1,349.00

Date the project commences Wards: January 2012 All

Source(s) of other funding

Fundraising, CYSS funds.

Does the project meet any of the following priorities?

Officer: Recommendation: Alison Meadows £1,349.00