SUPPORT

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SUPPORT

• Friday 4th December.

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Issues

• Who is going to pull the sector together.
• There needs to be a definition of local,
  sub-regional and regional.
• Discussion about Model(s).
• Getting regional voluntary organisations
  together.
• Developing governance clusters.

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Role of YouthNet

• Enable/manage others to support their members
• Create the data base in order to signpost what
  support is out there, a conduit/yellow pages
  directory, barometer, skills audit etc
• Play a linking-connecting role for the sector
• Increase COMMUNICATION

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Role contd

• Play a developmental role in areas and places not
  connected in
• Promote and support existing or emerging Hubs
• Liaise with other support providers who are
  outside the youth sector

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Function of a Hub

• Support
• Meeting place
• Somewhere to get advice, information and
  consultation
• Place to converse
• Place to develop practice.

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Representation

• Important to establish Principles that would
  underpin representation.

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Suggested Principles

• Dialogue is a two-way process
• Built on the voice from young people, community
  Building from inside out
• Fair access to all members to information
• Efficient, effective, coherent and clear
• Develop capacity of the sector.

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The Mechanics of how this would happen.

• The development of Hubs will assist this
  development.
• Creative use of IT, e.g. E-pipe, discussion
  forums, twitter, blogs, texting, online polls
  etc.
• Audit of existing groups from other data bases,
  i.e. ELBs.

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Some issues

• Less meetings.
• Consolidate interest groups in YouthNet and let
  them know when things are happening.
• One voice.
• Advocacy Responding quickly to the media,
  politicians regarding the voluntary sector.
• Defending the sector.