Fiona Phur
Voluntary & Community Sector
Specialist
POSITIVE FOR YOUTH –
The Implications for the
Voluntary & Community
Sector
4 October 2012
The RYWU
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History
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Projects
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Networks
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Involvement – membership
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Forthcoming events - conference
Current Context
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Radical policy reforms; education, health and
welfare
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Structural reforms: local government, youth justice
etc
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Positive for Youth
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Policy that affect the operating environment:
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Early intervention
Youth unemployment
Localism
Benefits reviews
Positive for Youth
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Reflects the Government’s Big Society agenda
Shared vision of support to young people
Aims to develop stronger local communities and
families
Promotes youth voice
Retains duty on local authorities for sufficient
provision
Recognition of early intervention
VCSE providers to assume more responsibility for
providing services through local commissioning
Positive for Youth – Summary of
commitments
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Empowering young people
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Parenting support
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Raising participation age in education
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Participate in work via Youth Contract
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Promoting Apprenticeships
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Supporting local authority commissioners
Positive for Youth – Summary of
Commitments
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Youth Voice
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MyPlace
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NCS
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Cadet forces in schools
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Public sector investment
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Social finance
Using the Outcomes Framework
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Findings of Education Select Committee 2010
Need to demonstrate the difference that services for young people make
Need to articulate the value that services for young people produce for
young people and for society more broadly
The Outcomes Framework is designed to support understanding and
measurement of the connections between intrinsic personal and social
development outcomes and longer-term extrinsic outcomes
A model of seven interlinked clusters of social and emotional capabilities
Supported by a strong evidence base demonstrating the links to longer-term
outcomes
A matrix of available tools to measure these capabilities
7 clusters of capabilities
Stages in using the framework
Useful contacts
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www.learning-southwest.org.uk ( go to Regional
Youth Work pages)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/comm
unityrights/righttochallenge/ ( for new rights under
Localism Act 2011)
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderin
gDownload/DFE-00198-2011.pdf ( Positive for Youth
Executive Summary)
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/big-society (Cabinet
Office - look out for TUPE consultation)
http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/tcomes
_Framework_draft_final_for_publication_3.pdf
Visit our web-site at
www.learning-southwest.org.uk