Young People's Participation and Representation

SALFORD YOUTH SERVICE DRAFT PLAN APPENDICES Appendix 1

Targets 2003 - 2004 YOUNG PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION

Objective Activity Outputs Deadlines Success Criteria To develop the city  The development of  Staff in Post  April 2003  No vacant posts wide youth forum City the staff team  Funding secured  Staff support 6 2000 meetings a year  Increase young  2 Reps from each  March 2004 people's youth service teams  Young people in membership  2 Reps from voluntary the Service aware organisations of the forum  30 young people  Programme of city actively involved  Expand the wide activities  Ongoing  Members reflect the curriculum  Training programme diversity of young for young people people in the City developed  Knowledge of local  2 celebration days a decision making year structures  1 town twinning  Shadowing political event structures  Involvement is  Influencing decisions certificated/ on services to young accredited people  Budget in place Objective Activity Outputs Deadlines Success Criteria To enable links to be  Youth workers  City 2000, the city  March 2004  Membership of made between the involvement in the wide youth forum City 2000 includes youth forums and Community develops as a young people from voices in the City, Committee Areas mechanism for young other arenas than Regionally and  Youth workers people's voice to come the Youth Service Nationally involvement with together for all.  Involvement in the Police Regional Consultation Assembly Initiatives Developments  Youth links in  Links with UK schools Youth MP & Parliament To support  Involving young  2 young people on  March 2004  Young People consultation with people in Salford Local Partnership visible in City young people Connexions  4 young people attend Structures throughout the City  Involving young Greater Manchester  Youth Scrutiny people in Greater  Young people's Commission has a Manchester consultation event held mechanism for Connexions contacting young  Involving young  4 young people on the people. people with the Commission  Young people's Youth Service Plan voice seen in the  Involving young  Reports show young Connexions people in people's involvement Partnership regeneration  Young people initiatives agenda active in the work of connexions  Partnership with the  2 young people from  Development of voluntary youth the Voluntary Sector "Salford Youth sector to engage attend City 2000 Alliance" young people To provide a voice for  Integrate the Black  Staff teams deliver  Ongoing  Young people from Black, Ethnic Youth Work joint working and the ethnic Minority, Refugee and Development planning communities Asylum Seeking Project with the  Mapping of ethnic engaged in City young people within Youth Participation communities known 2000 structures the Youth Service Team  Awareness of the  Contacts  Voluntary and needs of young established and community groups people from ethnic developed with known communities visible appropriate in Youth Service communities planning  Contacts  Specific projects established and delivered locally developed with voluntary youth sector organisations  Relevant  Take up accreditation programmes of routes work offered To advocate on behalf  Youth workers  References are made to  Ongoing  Projects develop of Black, Ethnic attend appropriate young people from  Meetings held at Community, Refugee meetings these communities in appropriate times in and young people in  Relevant reports reports appropriate venues City and Connexions disseminated structures Youth Service teams  Partnership work  Youth projects develop  Ongoing  Reports of activities play an active part in with relevant an annual calendar of in the festivals appropriate festivals agencies key events Youth Service workers  Youth workers  2 young people from  Ongoing  Young people actively involve young engage with the ethnic community engaged with people in local Community involved with the Community structures Strategy and Youth Scrutiny Strategy. support young Commission  Voice of young people in the people reflected in structures local and city-wide plans SOCIAL INCLUSION

To offer programmes  Youth work  Youth Charter in all  Ongoing  Youth charters and and activities that will programmes aiding youth service projects boundaries in youth engage with young young people  20 young people gain work settings people who are explore the certificates for their agreed by all and vulnerable and at risk consequences of achievements monitored by all of becoming involved actions  Juvenile Nuisance calls  Work with schools in anti-social  Personal and Social lowered in areas where recognised behaviour or crime development youth workers are accreditation programmes active  Young people's delivered in schools achievements and pupil referral recognised and units celebrated  Youth Service will  Delivery of the year support Education 11 NOF Summer development Plan Programme  Programmes  Delivery of the offered to enhance Connexions young people's self Summer Plus esteem and Programme confidence  Youth workers  Development of the  March 2004 develop effective Mobile provision to local partnerships  reach young people to deliver not engaged with alternative activities organisations for young people  Effective links with  Detached work in developed areas where young Connexions PA's people are seen to be at risk To advocate on behalf  Youth workers  Protocols established  Ongoing  Youth Service staff of young people with engage in for work with at risk gain relevant & reference to the effect Community Sector young people appropriate of anti social meetings  Preventative knowledge and behaviour and  Youth Service programmes of work awareness exclusion involved with developed  The Youth Service truancy initiatives  Training for Staff role in the Crime  Youth workers and Disorder have significant Strategy is input of work with developed and youth task groups implemented.  Youth Service work with the Connexions Service PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Objective Activity Outputs Deadlines Success Criteria To develop the  Joint management  Partnership Agreement  May 2003  Staff trained and partnership with the meetings finalised aware Salford Connexions  Youth Service  Connexions' Service  March 2004  Young people Service buildings used as targets achieved accessing the Connexions outlets  All Youth Service  March 2004 Connexions  Staff training Managers trained in Delivery points in  Joint planning Introduction to Youth Service  Information sharing Connexions and buildings  Youth Service Understanding delivery of NOF Connexions Year 11 Programme and Summer Plus To develop  The Youth Service  Youth Service attends  Ongoing  Connexions relationship with the is active in the relevant meetings structures known Local Partnership at Partnerships at by staff and young Salford and Greater Salford and GM people Manchester Level Levels  Young people gain  Information up to date advice distributed and support from Salford Connexions and Greater Manchester  To engage in  Maintaining the  1 new partnership  Ongoing  Partnerships partnership relationships with developed maintained developments with those organisations  New Partnership all relevant already partnered. developed organisations and  Working with agencies working community NSF with the 13 - 25 age Project group with priority development to 13 - 19. workers  Developing an effective partnership structure  To work with the  Partnership with  3 reps on steering  May 2003  Steering Group voluntary youth Salford Council for group  March 2004 develops plan sector to establish Voluntary Services  AGM to launch  Network through their voice in the formally which voluntary Youth Service and youth groups access the City advice/support  To create and  Salford CVS and  1 new project made  Ongoing  Local Vol Youth submit achievable Youth Service possible with joint Groups see bids for joint work developing the funding improvement in in partnership with voluntary sector their capacity to relevant agencies capacity respond to organisations and initiatives young people  The Youth Service  Engagement with  Youth Service  Ongoing  Involvement in the will be active in the work of the represented in all Regional Training supporting regional Regional Youth Committees Scheme for opportunities for Service Unit sessional staff from partnership  Ensuring young  Youth Service staff the Youth Service people have the aware of Regional and Voluntary opportunity to work Assembly Sector with the Regional  2 Young People attend  1 International Assembly Regional Event piece of work for  Involvement with staff or young Connect Youth people International  "Salford Youth  Involvement with Alliance" has the regional regional Council for representation Voluntary Youth Services QUALITY ASSURANCE

Objective Activity Outputs Deadlines Success Criteria  To review the  Analysis of 12  All units produce  March 2004  Quality Assessment Youth Service weekly reports Audit for 2003/04 System reviewed to Quality Assurance  Revisit curriculum  All units have meet TYW agenda System statement Development Plan to meet TYW and Plan  To incorporate the  Managers Training  Development of  Ongoing  Managers OFSTED self  Units use as part of systems to record understand criteria assessment their audit Young People  Work recorded to schedule into Youth Learning meet criteria Service procedures  Young People's learning recorded  To develop MIS  MIS received and  Service information  Ongoing  Ease of information using the NYA linked into current available to meet NYA gathering model procedures Audit  To review and  Policies reviewed  Policies and  Ongoing  Policy folder re- update the Youth against the procedures current organised Service procedures guidelines of the  Training delivered  Policies current and guidelines City of Salford when appropriate  Staff understand  Policies review polices and against the procedures and use documents from correctly appropriate strategies e.g. Drugs, DfES, Teenage Pregnancy, Connexions. To develop a staff  Collation of  Staff Development  Ongoing  Staff Development development policy existing procedures Policy established Policy  Development of  Training Programme  Training Training Plan delivered Programme To undergo a Best  Best Value Review  Best Value Plan  September 2003  Review Completed Value Review Appendix 2

Jill Baker Director of Education And Leisure

Anne Hillerton Paul Greenway Faith Mann Lynn Wright Judy Edmonds Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant Director School Improvement Inclusion and Access Lifelong Learning and Resources and Planning Capital and School Leisure Organisation

(Vacant) School Improvement SEN Culture and Heritage Finance Asset Management Special Initiatives Team Educational Psychology Early Years and Childcare Personnel Capital Programme Manager Excellence in Cities Education Welfare Lifelong Learning City-wide Admissions/Exclusions Music and Performing Inclusion Support Service Youth, Sport and the Support Services Arts Community Strategic Support Ethnic Minority and Governor Support Traveller Achievement Service Strategic and Strategic and Corporate Strategic and Corporate Strategic and Corporate Strategic and Corporate Corporate Leads Leads Leads Leads Leads

Education Development Crime and Disorder Town Twinning Training and Health and Safety Plan Drug Action Youth Issues Development Capital Programme Standards Fund Health Services Connexions ICT School Organisation Plan Creative Partnerships Children in Public Care Learning and Skills Best Value Review of School Places SACRE Work with Social Services Council Schools Forum Regeneration (e.g. UDP, 14-19 Strategy Children’s Services Planning Early Years Development Co-ordination of Service lead on planning new Child Protection and Childcare Planning provision) Behaviour Support Plan Lifelong Learning Links with Corporate Private Finance Initiatives Work with Voluntary Partnership Centre Services Funding Bids (management information) Scrutiny Transport Equality PROPOSED YOUTH SERVICE STRUCTURE Appendix 2

Principal Youth Officer

Assistant Assistant Youth Officer Youth Officer

Senior Admin Officer

Youth Work Managers Admin Level 2/3 Team

Sessional Teams Ancillary Caretakers Assistants Managed centrally Deans Activities Centre Appendix 3 Where and Who Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Clifton Youth Centre Outdoors Heather Baxendale 794 4321 Danny Bentham 794 1088 Greenheys Youth Centre 790 8186 Walkden & Charlestown Little Hulton Lynn Brown 736 1232

Swinton North Salford Youth Bridgewater Youth Centre Centre Aych 792 5429 Bernie Lomax 790 6950 Kersal Pendleton & Black Youth Work Boothstown Youth Worsley & Charlestown Development Project Centre Boothstown Claremont Gail Harrison 799 9425 Jessica Pathak Weaste & Broughton Eccles Seedley & Detached Teams Blackfriars Oasis Youth Centre Danny Mulvihill 834 GEARS Motor Project Ordsall & 5439 Dave Saunders 794 1088 Langworthy Height Youth Centre & Duchy Outreach Team Town Twinning & Youth Forums Carole Foster 736 2550 Jan Roche 834 5439

Youth Exchanges UPS Independent Living Irlam & Helen Wilson 736 2550 Denise Millward 736 1369 Cadishead

Ordsall Youth Eccles Youth Centre Centre Chris Kelsall 789 Tom Cole 873 7636 6662 Irlam & Cadishead Youth Centre NRF Detached Team 775 3800 Steve Dyson 789 6662

For information about Salford Youth Service contact: Salford Youth Service, Minerva House, Pendlebury Road, Swinton, M27 4EQ Tel: 0161 778 0361 Appendix 4 Appendix 4

Transforming Youth Work

Resourcing Excellent Youth Service Introduction

This document sets out a specification of a sufficient local authority youth service. It sets out what the government expects a local authority to provide through its strategic leadership role. Whilst its publication came after the Plan had been developed, Salford targets include the accreditation of young people’s learning and ensuring young people are satisfied with the Service. Salford Youth Service will aspire to the “REYS” targets. It provides direction regarding:-  the local authority’s duty to provide a youth service;  the Secretary of State’s powers of intervention and direction;  a youth service plan agreed by members following consultation with partners;  the contribution the youth service makes to other Government priorities such as tackling anti-social behaviour and crime;  a local pledge to young people;  national standards of provision;  health and safety requirements;  mainstreaming equal opportunities, diversity and community cohesion;  support and investment to voluntary and community based youth work;  the youth work curriculum;  targeted provision;  local authority planning and delivery of substantial increases in the resource and activity levels of their youth services; and  clearly designed quality assurance processes. What the government expects of a local authority:-

A local authority has a duty to ensure the provision of a sufficient youth service and should:-

 provide strategic leadership for the whole youth service;

 ensure the local authority youth service is a key contributing partner to the Connexions Service and local preventive strategies;

 ensure the active participation of young people in the specification, governance, management, delivery and quality assurance of youth services;

 secure appropriate and coherent youth work provision through coherent partnership arrangements;

 take a leading role in representing youth service interests at local, regional, national and European governmental levels;

 provide high quality youth work in settings where the local authority is uniquely placed to make direct provision; and

 ensure safe environments supervised by skilled and caring workers providing a facility in which the community has the utmost confidence.

Standards of Youth Work Provision

Local authorities should ensure the delivery of a service which:  targets the 13-19 age range but may also be working at the margins with 11 – 13 and 19-25 year olds;

 aims to reach 25% of the target age range in any given year of operation (and similar proportions for different ethnic groups);

 maintains a balanced range of provision delivered through a variety of outlets;

 deploys appropriately trained and qualified staff;

 has sufficient resource to invest in provision including Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and to provide capital investment in existing and future building stock;

 has a sufficient balance of well trained managers to qualified youth workers;

 has a capacity to respond to new demands and needs of young people;

 has a continuous professional development programme for staff, voluntary or paid; and

 has a clearly defined quality assurance process.

Measuring Performance

Annual Youth Service Unique Targets

 25% of the target population 13 – 19 reached (to reflect the cultural diversity of the community);  Of the 25% reached in the 13 – 19 target population, 60% to undergo personal and social development which results in an accredited outcome;

 The target population will include a locally agreed target for those assessed as not in education, employment of training (NEET) or who are at risk of, or who already fall into the following categories, teenage pregnancy, drugs, alcohol or substance abuse or offending;

 70% of those participating in youth services expressing satisfaction with the service.

Youth Service Specific Performance Indicators

 spend per head of population in the target age range (13 – 19) per head of population in the target age range priority groups (Neet);

 number of personal and social development opportunities/activities offered to young people in the target age range;

 number of personal and social development opportunities offered to young people lasting between 10 and 30 hours with a recorded outcome;

 number of personal and social development opportunities offered to young people lasting from 30 to 60 hours, and leading to an accredited outcome;

 number of young people supported who are at risk.

Youth Work Values

 young people choose to be involved, not least because they want to relax, meet friends and have fun;  the work starts where young people are – with their view of the world and their interests;  it seeks to go beyond where young people start, in particular by encouraging them to be critical and creative in their responses to their experience and the world around them and supporting their exploration of new ideas, interests and creative ability;  it takes place because young people are young people, not because they have been labelled or categorised as deviant;  it recognises, respects and is actively responsive to the wider networks of peers, communities and cultures which are important to young people;  through these networks it seeks to help young people achieve stronger relationships and collective identities – for example, as black people, women, men, disabled people, gay men or lesbians – and through the promotion of inclusivity, particularly for minority ethnic communities;  it is concerned with facilitating and empowering the voice of young people;  it is concerned with ensuring young people can influence the environment within which they live;  it respects and values individual differences by supporting and strengthening young people’s belief in themselves and their capacity to grow and change;  it works with other agencies which contribute to young people’s social and personal development; and  it complements and supports school and college-based education by encouraging and providing other opportunities for young people to achieve and fulfil their potential. Local Authority Pledge to Young People

The pledge should provide:

 a safe, warm, well equipped meeting place within reasonable distance of home, accessible to young people at times defined by young people, giving an opportunity to participate in personal and social development activities including arts, drama, music, sport, international experience and voluntary action;

 a wide diversity of youth clubs, projects and youth activities;

 a set of programmes, related to core youth work values and principles, based on a curriculum framework which supports young people’s development in citizenship, the arts, drama, music, sport, international experience and personal and social development, including through residential experiences and peer education;

 a comprehensive generic, confidential information, advice and counselling service;

 mechanisms for ensuring that their voice is heard, perhaps (though not exclusively) through a youth council or youth forum for each locality, with the intention of supporting youth engagement in local democracy in a wide range of ways;

 an annual youth service questionnaire involving young people in auditing and evaluating the services (provided by the local authority youth service) available to them locally;

 a defined project to promote and secure youth volunteering and voluntary action; and

 the opportunity to participate in programmes which offer accreditation for learning such as the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Youth Achievement Award or similar. Workforce Development

Local Authorities should clearly define the definitions of purposes and values, a strong sense of corporate identity and a responsiveness to changing needs to those features that promote excellent performance. These values can be reflected in the roles of youth workers and their managers.

Youth Workers:

 know, believe and can model the core organisational values;

 are able to assess the needs of young people in their locality, including the acquisition and interpretation of data about needs;

 are clear about their overall purpose and flexible about how to achieve that with different groups of young people;

 can establish positive relationships with young people based on mutual trust;

 understand their role in facilitating personal and social education of young people;

 can assess young people’s progress;

 can identify, develop and influence key networks and communication channels concerned with services to young people;

 can understand their role in promoting service with the local community, councillors and key officers; and

 can evaluate their work with young people.

Managers:

 know, believe and can model the core organisational values;  can contribute to over all management effectiveness through their interpersonal, analytic, strategic or financial skills;

 can handle the ‘bread and butter’ operational issues;

 are able to use management processes, including supervision, to enable staff development and ensure organisational effectiveness;

 can identify, develop and influence key networks and communication channels concerned with services to young people; and

 understand their role in promoting the service with local community, councillors and key officers.

In this particular context:

 all employers must accept a responsibility for ensuring that staff have an entitlement to opportunities for their Continuing Professional Development (CPD), including secondments. The potential of on-line learning should be explored and developed.  Employers should allocate suffiecient funds to support the CPD of all youth workers and establish a standard comparable to expectations in other professions. A target of between 2-5% of total staffing budget should be the basis.  All youth work organisations should have a staff development programme for which they actively seek national accreditation.

Youth and Community Services Definitions

Youth Services

Within the new system of LEA funding, to be implemented from April 2003, there is a sub block of Youth and Community. This will be distributed between LEAs using a formula driven mainly by the number of 13 – 19 year olds in a n LEA area and weighted for ethnicity. The Department will be monitoring LEAs budgeted spend against this assessment. The purpose of separately identifying funding and spend on the youth service in this way is to encourage LEAs to prioritise spending on their youth services. We expect local authorities to have regard to the level of increase in their Youth and Community assessment when planning youth service budgets for each year.

All local authorities must provide high quality and well resourced youth services. (These are sometimes described as Youth and Community Services.) The term “Youth Service” describes the range of provision developed through a partnership of local authorities and voluntary and community organisations. Youth service activities are primarily for personal and social development. They can be formal or informal. They must be linked to raising achievement and standards in education, training and employment or initiatives aimed at promoting inclusion and participation.

The services will be for people aged between 11 and 25 with a priority on engaging 13 – 19 year olds. The emphasis of the services must be working with disadvantaged, ‘at risk’ and socially excluded young people.

The Service will be underpinned by the national and local priorities and actions indicated in the Common Planning Framework Guidance. This will form a plan for the youth service. It must show how the youth service will work to meet national and local authority targets.

Youth service activities can be delivered within an informal framework combining challenge and learning. They must enable the young people to have a voice, influence and place in their communities and society as a whole. It must involve young people as partners in learning and decision-making and help them develop their own values.

The youth work must include a commitment to equal opportunities. This must apply to staff and clients. Youth services can provide:

 Opportunities for personal and social development,

 Opportunities to learn new skills (for example, vocational skills) and

 Social, vocational and physical training.

All the types of youth service provision must be focussed on youth work that is supporting formal and informal education, training or employment. Youth and Community funding is not for general leisure provision or school extra- curricular activities without any youth work content.

Appendix 5

Teenage Pregnancy Action Plan 2003/2004 (Salford Youth Service)

SEU Action Task Milestone Lead Time Resources Point Promotion of Teenage  Relevant/upto date  Senior Worker 2003 – 2006 Teenage Pregnancy Services to information Pregnancy unit Young People in all displayed publications Youth Service Teams  Staff Training Developing young  Staff awareness &  Unit Managers 2002 – 2004 Youth Service people’s access to training Sexwise website and  Internet available other SRE Youth  Record of use Service Sites Youth Workers  Staff training  Unit Managers 2003 – 2004 Teenage involved with  Number of Pregnancy Unit condom distribution condoms scheme distributed  Staff Training  Increase in units involved SRE programmes  Programmes of  Unit Managers Ongoing Youth Service developed with young work seen in people Termly reports from Youth Service Units Teenage Pregnancy Action Plan 2003/2004 (Salford Youth Service)

SEU Action Task Milestone Lead Time Resources Point Maintain links with  Use of Regional  Senior Worker 2003 – 2006 Youth Service Regional Resources info Mainstream & Structures  Networking with Regional Team Support to Young  Ensuring Team  Senior Worker 2003 – 2006 Youth Service Parents aware of services Mainstream  Records of  Unit Managers referrals/support Salford Youth Service

Salford Youth Service will maintain its commitment to the Salford Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. The Youth Workers will advocate on behalf of and disseminate appropriate information and resources to young people. This will include attendance at relevant meetings and ongoing support and training for Youth Service Staff.

In addition, the role of Salford Youth Service in responding to the Transforming Youth Work agenda and the new target population identified in “Resourcing Excellent Youth Services” indicates the need to work towards a designated Youth Service post to develop and co-ordinate Health work with young people.