Portsmouth City

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Portsmouth City
PRESENTATION
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National Context

• The Green Paper, Youth Matters, is
  drafted in the context of the
• Governments policy Every Child Matters
• This is a significant paper and sets
  out to reform existing services for young people
  in England and to create a modern system of
  support with the overall aim of ensuring all
  young people meet the five outcomes of Every
  Child Matters (being healthy staying safe
  enjoying and achieving making a positive
  contribution and achieving economic well being)
• Essentially Youth Matters has four key
  objectives
•   (1) Engage more young people in positive
  activities and empower them to shape the services
  they receive
•   (2) Encourage more young people to volunteer
  and become involved in their communities
•   (3) Provide better information, advice and
  guidance to young people to help them make
  informed choices about their lives
•   (4) Provide better and more personalised
  intensive support for each young person who has
  serious problems or gets into trouble

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National Context

• And makes recommendations for reform based on six
  key principles
• Making services more responsive to what young
  people and their parents want
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• Balancing greater opportunities and
  support with promoting young peoples
  responsibilities
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• Making services for young people more
  integrated, efficient and effective
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• Improving outcomes for all young
  people, while narrowing the gap between those
  who do well and those who do not
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• Involving a wide range of organisations
  from the voluntary, community and private
  sectors in order to increase choice and secure
  the best outcomes
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• Building on the best of what is
  currently provided
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• Every Child Matters Next Steps

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Local Context

• Portsmouth 8
• We want all children to grow up
• having the right to an active say in any
  development
• healthy
• emotionally secure and confident
• having succeeded as far as they can at school
• having facilities and opportunities to play
  safely
• having stayed out of trouble
• living in a safe place
• having the opportunity to succeed in achieving
  their dreams.
• Children and Young Peoples Single Plan
• Priority 8 - Improve involvement and
  participation of children and young people
• Strategically
• Joint Commissioning Group
• Adolescent Health incorporating teenage
  pregnancy
• Youth Justice
• Youth Participation
• Community Cohesion and Community Involvement
  Volunteering

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PURPOSE

• Portsmouth City Youth Service recognises the
  worth and value of every young person, welcoming
  diversity and difference, acknowledging their
  right to be heard, nurtured and offered
  opportunities to maximise potential

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PROVISION

• Open Youth Centres
• Detached and outreach projects
• Arts, Media and Music Projects
• Specialist Projects
• Youth Affairs Unit Participation and
  involvement of young people within
  decision-making across the City
• Outdoor Education Work including
• Duke of Edinburghs Award
• Southsea Skatepark
• Youth Service Strategic Plan 

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• New three year Strategic Plan
• Complete restructure of the Service including a
  complete regrading of all levels of jobs within
  the service
• Creation of a training and development structure
• Clarifying of funding levels and planning for
  reduction in external funding
• Designing and implementation of a curriculum for
  the service
• Development of Youth Affairs Unit Mystery
  shopper, urban activator, Youth Parliament,
  employment of young people direct
• Development of specialist work Euro Rock,
  Sailing with special needs young people, 4u
  project, currently developing international music
  and cultural experience, information and advice
  centre
• Relationships with other agencies, Education,
  Connexions, PCT, Surestart, FE college, Police,
  YMAZ, other youth services and voluntary sector
  organisations e.g. MOTIV8, Youth Clubs Hampshire
  and Isle of Wight
• Comprehensive development of a quality assurance
  and management of information system

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OFSTED

• July 04 Ofsted judged
• Portsmouth City Council provides a satisfactory
  Youth Service, and provides satisfactory value
  for money.
• Actions required
• Improve the quality of operational management
• Place more focus on learning outcomes for young
  people
• Ensure that youth work is rigorously planned and
  evaluated in partnership
• with young people
• Involve young people more in decision making
  throughout the Service
• Take action to promote good race relations
• Improve partnerships with Connexions and the
  Voluntary Sector
• Ofsted Action Plan and Supporting Paper

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Progress

• All actions indicated within the Action Plan and
  supporting paper have been completed
• From the 22 Actions that were detailed within
  the Action Plan all have now been completed. A
  meeting has been held with GOSE regarding the
  action plan and they are happy with the progress.
  This is a major achievement and demonstrates the
  positive forward momentum of the Youth Service.
• Despite the significant financial challenges
  faced by the Youth Service, the Service has
  responded well with excellent support and is
  being actively managed. This will ensure that the
  Youth Service will remain a strong service
  provider and further improve the services offered
  to young people both now and in the future. The
  Green Paper Youth Matters brings new and more
  diverse challenges for the Service but the
  service is now in an excellent position to
  respond to and take advantage of the
  opportunities to further develop and improve on
  the provision available. The Youth Service will
  be both a respondent and supporter of young
  people in the City and further develop the
  services it offers towards excellence over the
  coming years.

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Effectiveness

• Current Performance
• Satisfaction Survey 2005 Annual Survey
• The Transforming Youth Work Standards require a
  85 satisfaction rating by young people of the
  service that they use. The satisfaction level
  for Portsmouth is set at a score of 7/10 or above
• The Overall satisfaction rating of 91.5 was
  achieved in the last annual survey
• Attendance
• 47,882 11-25yrs 40,156 13-19yrs
• Membership
• 4415 individuals accessed the service
• BME Contact
• Approximately 3 against Portsmouth Population of
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• BVPI 221a/b 05-06 return
• 221a - Recorded outcomes 974 Target 06/07-1200
  
• 221b Accreditation 112 Target 06/07-200
• Credit where its due

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Additional Information
Partnership Working The Youth Service works with
a range of partners in varying degrees from
direct partnership working e.g. YMCA, Motiv8,
Police To associated working partnerships e.g.
Express FM, Primary Care Trust, other
organisations supporting young people Knowledge
of and working in respect of other providers e.g.
Connexions, Preventing Youth Offending, Drugs
Action Team, Community Wardens All partnerships
can develop or reduce depending on need and
current situation at the time Distribution for
Provision Provision is distributed across the
City, however it is noted that there is no
building based provision on the eastern seaboard
of the City or within the far south-east of the
City
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Additional Information
Current funding situation The Service has lost
approximately 700,000 over the last 3 years in
respect of external funding due to programmes
ending. However the Service has actively managed
the loss of these funds and received growth
monies. Therefore the Service has now a stable
budget of just over 1.2million. The national
benchmark for funding for Youth Service is
currently 100 per head per person for the 13-19
cohort. The Youth Service currently stands at
77.81 per head. The funding streams
traditionally allocated to young people are
currently focused within the voluntary and
community sector. The challenge for the future
will be that of the Service to respond to the
current policies and direction coming out of
central government enabling a strong position to
be taken in terms of service delivery that meets
the local, regional and national requirements
whilst still retaining a quality service based on
need. The Service will also need to consider its
position within the remit of commissioning of
provision within the City.
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Future Business Planning
Agree future strategic direction of the Service
set against the current and possible future
agendas Agree the planned stages of action
leading into the Joint Area Review inspection in
2008 Agree annual business objectives driving
against the targets of the Service Continuous
review of youth needs and designing of programmes
to meet identified issues and needs Youth
Operational Delivery Plan 06/07 Progress towards
Joint Area Review