Work Plan 2009 - 10
Strategic Plan 2009 - 2012
The Confederation of Heads of Young People and the Future
We represent the interests and advocate on behalf of the Heads and Senior Managers responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of IYSS including
We seek to extend our partnerships with other associations who contribute to the IYSS agenda and who place the needs and aspirations of young people at the centre of their strategies. We aim to do so individually and jointly to contribute to the provision of high quality integrated services for young people.
We are committed to support the delivery of the six key objectives of Aiming High for Young People: a ten year strategy for positive activities. We work in support of our partners in AYM and NCN and others to contribute to the delivery of aspects of the Youth Crime Action Plan, the 14-19 Agenda and Information Advice and Guidance.
The Confederation and Children’s Services
The Conferation is committed to supporting the delivery of 21st century world class services for young people working alongside its partners in Children’s Services. Its main aim in doing so is to contribute to the effective implementation of the aspirations of the Children’s Plan in the following specific areas:
· Enabling young people to fulfil their potential
· Raising their aspirations
· Advocacy for their rights voice and choice
· Ensuring protection from abuse harm and neglect
· Supporting higher achievements for all especially those most unlikely to succeed
· Building the capacity of the workforce to operate in all environments
· Embracing the triple track approach to reducing youth crime by prevention early
intervention and enforcement
The Confederation and Integrated Youth Support Services
The delivery context for services for young people has begun to change significantly as a result of the establishment of local Integrated Youth Support Services. A further factor that has resulted in re shaped services is the development of Targeted Youth Support and changed arrangements for information, advice and guidance. Different but complementary professionals are expected to work together to provide a comprehensive offer to young people to meet not only their perceived, but also expressed, needs often from co located premises.
We assert that youth work is core part of this and should be promoted as a distinct method of working with young people alongside social care, health care and other services including information advice and guidance. It contributes significantly to building resilience, social capital and social enterprise with young people as well as supporting and encouraging their volunteering.
Improved and extended co-ordination of those responsible for the leadership and management of IYSS within local authorities at the strategic level nationally would significantly enhance the quality and impact of these services. The Confederation is well placed to continue to take the lead in extending partnerships arrangements in relation to these developments and to ensure that greater influence is thereby applied to national policy drivers for young people.
Priorities for Action
Our priorities for action for the next three years have in the main been informed and shaped by Aiming High for Young People and the Children’s Plan. Within this context the Confeeration’s priorities for action are:
· Services for Young People
· Improving Quality
· Integrated Working
· Workforce - Leaders and Managers
· Organisational Development
Target 2012 Services for Young People
By 2012 we will have
· contributed to increasing the number of local places for young people to go, things to do
and people to talk to
· enabled the public narrative about young people to be re balanced
· firmly established the centrality of the youth work contribution to young peoples learning and
development
· ensured that the empowerment of young people in influencing the decisions about the LA
spend on positive activities is fully realised
· contributed to and directly influenced national policy developments for young people
Potential work plan areas 2009-2012
Raising of the compulsory participation age; impact of the economic situation -‘new’ NEETs; social media impact on working arrangement; weekend working; capital assets strategies; removing barriers and supporting young people to access services; access-going to where they are; safe spaces; young people designed and delivered; white working class young men; work across all sectors including private; releasing unused places e.g. schools community centres; FE and HE; full resourcing;
Revised arrangements for youth justice and ISO’s: Think Family reforms; coalition for young people; volunteering; media; celebration events - youth week etc; voice; all adults positive views of young people; full information about and use of current facilities; Ed Balls one roof £200 million health education and children’s services
Actively promoting and extending opportunities; UN Convention on Rights of the child; Young Inspectors; Participatory budgeting (training and supporting them to do so) commissioning and decommissioning; myplace and other spaces; good practice – C4EO; all services including leisure, housing, culture, arts; local democratic processes
Target 2012 Improving Quality
By 2012 we will have
· clarified national indicators and standards that can be used to demonstrate the quantity and quality of the youth work element of IYSS
· contributed to the identification and dissemination of good practice
· ensured the continuous improvement of both the capacity and quality of the youth work element of services for young people
· actively promoted and provided information to support the youth theme of C4EO
Potential work plan areas 2009-2012
Integrated quality and performance systems: measuring impact and identifying outcomes against NI set; entitlement and the youth offer; standards post OFSTED; world class quality; all services that young people receive and are entitled to; C4EO; NYA QM
Target 2012 Integrated working
By 2012 we will have
· formalised our partnership arrangements with key national and regional associations
· Completed the negotiations to enable a joint organisation that represents and supports all those leading and managing IYSS to be established.
Potential work plan areas 2009-2012
Heads of agreement/service level agreements; RWYU; NYA; ADCS; young people led organisations e.g. BYC, UKYP; third sector; AYM; NCN
Target 2012 Workforce - Leaders and Managers
By 2012 we will have
· extended our support for Leaders and Managers of youth work and related aspects of IYSS
· provided an annual programme of events to ensure that they are well placed to take account of emergent trends
· maintained and where possible extended our influence over the development and promotion of the youth workforce
Potential work plan areas 2009-2012
Leadership skills in integrated/aligned teams; managing complexity and identifying links; professional leads across integrated services; induction; peer mentoring; sets of guidance notes on issues that impact on the work
Conferences, seminars, e bulletins; web site; critical analysis of policy; the youth work contribution to prevention and early intervention; keeping young people safe;
HE; FE; unions; CPD;
Target 2012 Organisational Development
By 2012 we will have
· Completed the review of the Association
· Legalised our status
· Ensured the long term future of the organisation
Potential work plan areas 2009-2012
Revised vision, rename/relaunch; three year strategic plan, review of governance. Web site; publicity and marketing; memorandum and articles; charitable registration/ limited company; financial aspects
