Youth Partnerships:
Coordinating services to help
young people stay on track
Aims of Youth Partnerships
• Strengthen collaboration and consistency in
service provision to young people, in order to:
• Improve engagement with education and training,
leading to an increase in the completion of Year 12 or
equivalent
• Reduce escalation of problems for individual young
people
Demonstration Governance Board Membership
Site
WMR
DEECD, DHS, CEO’s City of Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay, Victoria
Police, LLEN,, Department Health, DEECD Regional Network
Leaders
EMR
DEECD, DHS, Knox, Maroondah, Yarra Ranges Human Service
Managers, LLEN, Victoria Police, Department Health, DPCD,
Justice
SMR
DEECD, DHS, Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Council
CEO’s, Department Health, Justice, Victoria Police
BSW
DEECD, DHS, CEO’s City of Greater Geelong, Surf Coast Shire,
Borough of Queenscliffe Department Health, Justice, Victoria
Police, 2 Nominated Community Service agencies, Associate
Professor Swinburne Uni
Grampians
DEECD, DHS, CEO’s Shires of Moorabool, Hepburn, Golden
Plains, Pyrenees, City of Ballarat, Department Health, RDV, DPCD,
LLEN, Catholic Ed, Victoria Police
LMR
DEECD, DHS, CEO’s Shire Central Goldfields, City of Greater
Bendigo, Swan Hill Rural City Council, Justice, Department Health,
Catholic Ed, Centrelink, LLEN, Aboriginal Rep Group, Child Youth
and Family Service Alliances
Disengaged Young People
Estimated 15-18 years disengaged (2007)
6.00%
5.10%
5.00%
4.40%
4.80%
4.60%
4.40%
4.00%
3.60%
3.70%
3.70%
SMR
NMR
3.70%
3.00%
2.20%
2.00%
1.00%
0.00%
BSW
Gramps
LMR
Hume
Gipps
EMR
WMR
Victoria
LGA level data has been estimated from a combination of ABS 2006 Census data and ABS 2007 Survey of Education and Work data
The Costs of Disengagement
Individual
Government
Society
Less highly educated
offspring
Decreased financial
security
Decreased cultural
enjoyment
Lower tax revenue
Increased demand on the
health system
Higher costs of crime
prevention
Increased administration
costs of social welfare
Lower levels of education
Lower health status
Increased crime
Generally decreased social
interations and
contributions to the
community
An early school leaver can
expect to earn
approximately $500,000
less than some who
completes year 12 (1)
Unemployment benefits of
$80 million per annum and
failure to realise $3.5 billion
in tax revenue (2)
Social benefits are
conservatively estimated
as 20% of any increase in
market earnings
For every dollar that government invests in retaining
early school leavers, the expected return is as much
as 3.2 times more
Average days of student absence (%)
2006 - 2009
25
Days of Absence per year
20
15
10
5
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
Year 5
12.9
13.1
13.6
14
Year 6
13.4
13.4
13.8
14.4
Year 7
14.8
14.9
15.2
16.2
Year 8
18.1
18.3
18.8
19.8
Year 9
19.9
20.2
21.2
22.5
Year 10
18.1
18.4
19.6
20.9
Year 11
14.1
13.5
14.9
15.8
Year 12
11
10.9
11.7
13
Education Partnerships
Across Victoria – the Context
Breakdown of types of partnerships by number of schools
Demonstration Sites
Building on existing activity and the work of the Better Youth Service Pilots:
• Barwon South West
– Identifying Young people at risk of Homelessness
– Model of improving outcomes for young people in residential care
– Cross sectoral tracking and referral
– Flexible learning setting
•
Grampians
– Flexible Learning Individual Pathways learning centre
– Outcome Star tool for case management
– Outreach Teaching Support
•
Loddon Mallee
– Place based governance
– Models of integrated service delivery
– Flexible learning and case management – ICAN
Demonstration Sites
•
Yarra Ranges, Maroondah and Knox
– No Wrong Door
– Improved referral processes
– Service usage data tool
– Early identification tool
•
Frankston and Mornington Peninsula
– Outreach teaching – Oakwood
– Multi agency planning
•
Wyndham and Hobsons Bay
– Processes to link schools and external services
– Visible access point for advice, needs assessment and referral
– Improve access to services
Secretariat activity
• Research data base
• Common Practice Framework
• Privacy Impact Assessment
• Finance and Governance Project
• Consultation with vulnerable young people
• Proposed data investigation
• Building an understanding of what’s happening outside the
demonstration sites
• Evaluation
Summary
Problem
Young People Disengaged or At
Risk of Disengagement
Aiming to achieve
Engaged Healthy Young People
Options to reduce service fragmentation
Fragmented service provision
Understand the systemic barriers related to funding
of service provision
Inconsistent response
Consolidate evidence of best practice
Create effective mechanisms to share information
Inconsistent early identification
Establish a common language and identification
mechanism
Inadequate understanding of young
people at risk or disengaged
Establish a systemic data baseline to understand
who the young people are and where they are
Next Steps
• Investigate data collected and opportunity to create
a systemic data baseline
• Effective mechanisms to share information
• Consider options to be tested for vulnerable groups:
– Unaccompanied minors
– Young people in Residential Care
– Young people in Justice Facilities
– Young people in the Homeless system
Further information
• Visit:
www.education.vic.gov.au/sensecyouth/youthpartnerships
• Email:
youth.partnerships@edumail.vic.gov.au