Young People not in Education,
Employment or Training (NEET) in
Charlestown & Lower Kersal
Contents of this report
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Rationale, process & stakeholder engagement
Rationale
Process
Stakeholder
engagement
• Priority within the LAA re. addressing economic prosperity
• NDC area contains highest NEET in the City
• Key issue within the NDC Education Strategy
• Core Team established
• Defining the NEET issue: age 16 – 18 and age 11 +
• Detailed picture of cause and effect of the NEET issue
• Clarity around the services and system in place to support
and prevent NEET young people
• Action Plan – short, medium and long term
• Project Champion
• Stakeholder mapping
• Workshops with Strategic and Frontline Workers
• Focus groups with NEET young people and and one to
ones
• Individual meetings and follow ups
LAA target
• Objective 1 – Improve economic prosperity
through educational attainment, skills,
employment and enterprise:
Outcome 3 – Improved economic
wellbeing of young people: reduce the
percentage of 16 -18 year olds not in
education, employment or training
Baseline 2006/07 – 8.4%
Target 2009/10 – 7%
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Baseline: what the data tells us
NEET % by Ward October 2007
18.0
16.0
14.0
12.0
10.0
8.0
6.0
4.0
2.0
0.0
Baseline: what the data tells us
NEET Trends
25
National
% NEET
20
15
Salford
National
NorthSalford
West
10
IrwellNorth
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West
Kersal
Irwell R
5
Linear
(Irwell R)
Kersal
Linear (Kersal)
0
2005
2005
2006
2006
2007
2007
2008
2008
20092009
Baseline: what the data tells us
NEET
51 young
people seeking
education,
employment or
training, incl.
13 young
people with
Youth
Offending
Service
involvement
12 young
people with
housing issues
16 young
people with
special
educational
needs
NEET (October 2007)
60 young people, of which
Short – term NEET (Churn)
46 young people
Long – term NEET : Over 20 weeks
(Stock)
14 young people
Unknowns
42 young people
Long - term
4 teenage
parents (2
aged 17 / 2
aged 18)
1 young carer
aged 18
1 young person
in custody
aged 18
4 young people
aged 17
4 young people
aged 18
Baseline: what the data tells us
NEET by Gender Breakdown
12
10
8
Male
6
Female
4
2
0
age 16 age 17 age 18
Irwell Riverside
age 16 age 17 age 18
Kersal
Baseline: what the data tells us
Maximum Qualification Level Achieved
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
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Irwell Riverside (Q2
2007)
Kersal (Q2 2007)
National (Q4 2006)
Not known below Level
1
Level 1
Level 2
Baseline: what the data tells us
Baseline: what the data tells us
Young People aged 11 - 16 (out of education)
2006/07 (The Albion High and All Hallows RC Schools)
• 52 pupils with fixed term exclusions in NDC area (14%). This figure
is declining.
• 3 pupils with permanent exclusions in NDC area (0.8%)
Summer Term 2007
• 60 pupils (Years 7 – 10) had unauthorised absences (16.2%)
Autumn Term 2007 (The Albion High)
• 23 pupils on alternative / part time curriculum
Stakeholder perspectives: the story behind the baseline
Effects
Individual
e.g. poor
attainment,
worklessness
Family e.g. in
and out of low
skilled jobs
Cultural
e.g. grey
economy
Services
e.g. a
need for on
going
support
NEET
IN NDC
AREA
Causes
Individual
e.g.
learning
difficulties
Family e.g.
lack of
parental
support
Cultural
e.g. peer
pressure
Services
e.g. neg.
experience
of school
The human story: what this could mean if you are born and
raised in Charlestown and Lower Kersal
Case Study - Pre 16
• Yr 10 50% attendance & disruptive
• Home issues – alcohol and absent father
• Interventions from COMPACT & Cyclone work placement
• School attendance increased and placement continued through summer
• Yr 11 detention for previous year, school refused
Case Study - Post 16
• Poor attendance in Yr 11, Connexions interventions starting in March
• Refuses assistance despite significant parental support
• Leaves school with no destination
• Registers with e2e, but is dismissed for smoking cannabis
• Found casual labour but is now out of work
Summary of the issue analysis
• 60 young people in Irwell Riverside / Kersal wards (of
which 36 in NDC area)
• Irwell Riverside twice the Salford and national average
• Not a static number or picture over the year
• People in and out of the system and long term NEET
• 42 unknowns / excludes traveller community
• Issue of school pupils ‘out of education’
• Causes and effects of NEET varied and complex
• Strong link to special educational needs (cause), low
skills and worklessness (effect)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Delivery Chain analysis: the pillars of commissioning
Understanding Need
Data
- Detailed data available at the local
level but not always used or shared
- Issue of ‘unknowns’
- Missing data re. traveller young
people
Performance Monitoring
- Mainly city wide rather than
neighbourhood based
- Outputs v outcomes
Role of community engagement
- Collective localised opportunity for
community / frontline worker input ?
Amber
Planning and deciding
Governance and accountability
- City wide 13-19 Partnership
and NEET sub group
Strategic and operational
planning
- Partnership approach but not
local
Scope and nature of
procurement activity
- Fragmented / inflexible
- Short term v long term
Coordination and openness of
procurement
- Open to contest?
- Role for third sector?
Amber
Delivery Chain analysis: the pillars of commissioning
Delivering
Accessibility
- Good range of locally based services
but limited outreach
Coordination
- Need better awareness/referral
mechanisms
Efficiency/value
- Potential duplication of effort
- Value of third sector
Incentives/motivations for
deliverers and customers
- Deliverers - quantity v quality
- Customers – financial (pos/neg)
Outcomes
- NEET being reduced / good practice
Amber
Reviewing and Learning
Evaluation of impact
- Regular performance
monitoring but not locally
focused
- Tracking and longer term
impact?
- Impact of third sector?
Learning about good practice
- Good practice shared between
partners but at a local level?
Amber
Perspectives on the System
Front line worker
Volunteers
‘learning mentors in
‘not given the recognition
school are great’
we deserve’
‘people don’t know what
‘reliant on small grants’
others are doing’
Dealing with
NEET in NDC
Commissioners /
Young People
Strategic
‘unwilling to listen’
‘early intervention required’
‘grateful for support and
‘system is
wide ranging advice’
fragmented’
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Summary of the key strengths
Broad range of
services and
providers
Improvement,
commitment
and good
practice
Partnership working
NEET in
Charlestown &
Lower Kersal
Local data
available
Joint Planning
Summary of the key challenges
Gaps in the service
‘offer’
Funding
issues /
changes
Communication and
referral
NEET in
Charlestown &
Lower Kersal
Information / data
sharing
Ensuring local
input in to
planning
Principles for a reformed approach
• The range of services to support NEET young people should work
as one cohesive, integrated system
• The funders of services in the area should co-ordinate to ensure a
cohesive and effective service
• Services should be able to respond to the different needs and
circumstances of NEET young people, built on a sound information
base.
• The system needs to be more effective upstream i.e. early
intervention
• There should be opportunity for a range of providers to work as part
of the system.
• Frontline workers should be motivated, valued and rewarded.
• The system should learn from ‘what works’ and support cultural
change.
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Results achieved during the trial
• Focus Group with NEET young people has
provided positive role models and a change in
working practice.
• Commitment to outreach between NDC Youth
Participation and Oliver’s Gym Youth
Club/Amber project
• Greater local awareness between service
providers
• Data shared for the first time
• Energy about the issue
• Better understanding about ‘unknowns’
Proposals to improve outcomes
Over-arching Proposals
Short/Medium/Long
Development of local Integrated Youth Support
Service with an initial focus on NEET young
people
Short
Development of a Locality Commissioning
Model
Medium
NEET as a target in new LAA with a
geographical focus
Medium
Proposals to improve outcomes
Issue
Gaps in service offer
Communication and
Referral
Proposal
Short/Medium/Long
Earlier intervention
from age 10 -13.
Medium
One to one support e.g.
individual mentoring
Short
Further development of
directory of available
services, differentiated
by type of provision
(WUU2).
Medium
Proposals to improve outcomes
Issue
Communication and
Referral cont.
Local input in to
planning
Proposal
Short/Medium/Long
Common Assessment
Framework / Family
Action Model / Lead
Professional –
additional training and
focused roll – out.
Medium
Local Marketing
Campaign
Medium
Look at role of third
sector providers in the
system
Long
Proposals to improve outcomes
Issue
Information / Data
sharing
Funding issues /
changes
Proposal
Short/Medium/Long
Use of Salford
Observatory to focus
on a LAA priority with a
neighbourhood focus
Medium
Develop protocols for
data sharing
Short
Look at opportunities
for mainstreaming /
further funding for time
expired good practice
Medium
Support capacity of
third sector providers
and mainstream
commissioners
Long
Scope for innovation?
• Role of ICT in future actions around
communication / data sharing
• New models of commissioning particularly
around third sector procurement
• Extend scope of Integrated Youth Support
Service from age 13 –19 to age 10 - 19
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Enabling measures required to deliver improved outcomes
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Ownership of Action Plan
Sharing and understanding of local data
Local performance management
Local partnership development
Development of commissioning e.g. joint
working, more localised, potential
providers
• Role, support and capacity of third sector
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Summary of learning from this Spotlight trial
Process
• First Spotlight so methodology was still being developed as the trial went
‘live’
• Importance of Project Champion
• Need to expand core team
• Resource intensive so need to plan accordingly
• Issue of ethics, trust and consent when working with potentially vulnerable
people
• Need to build in opportunities to verify findings with different stakeholder
groups
• Need to look at good practice from elsewhere
• Learning shared and built in to other Spotlights
Issue of NEET
• Created energy and focus
• Robust and rapid process
• Know a lot more about the issue and have a clear way forward
Young People not in Education,
Employment or Training (NEET) in
Charlestown & Lower Kersal