11 – 19
Youth Support
Positive For Youth
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Strong Ambitions
Good Opportunities
Supportive Relationships
What do we mean by Youth Support?
Youth Support addresses the risk factors that
may result in poor outcomes and helps build
vulnerable young peoples resilience
Youth Support aims to:
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Develop young people’s social and emotional skills
enabling them to make positive choices, manage
change and navigate risk
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Raise young people’s aspirations and help them to
achieve and feel positive towards learning
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Help foster supportive and positive families,
communities and peer groups
Youth Support is part of Early
Intervention / Prevention
Early intervention is defined as
“ intervening early and as soon as possible to
tackle problems emerging for young people and
their families or with a population most at risk of
developing problems. Early intervention may
occur at any point in a child or young persons
life”
Key processes and tools across the continuum of needs and services
I = Identification and action
T = Transition
N = Needs met
Effective support puts the young person’s
life journey at the centre
Support transitions in and out
of specialist services
Specialist
services
Address current issues
Targeted
services
Identify and
intervene early
Prevent
Universal problems
services
Integrated Services
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Seven locality teams focusing on early intervention and
prevention
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Working with children young people and families to
promote:
safety, wellbeing and learning
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Teams include a wide range of professionals including
health
INTEGRATED SERVICES
Assistant Director Integrated Services
Integrated Service
Manager
Named Nurses
Safeguarding
Integrated Service
Manager
Integrated Service
Manager
Integrated Service
Manager
Integrated Service
Manager
Community Health Services Lead
(sits on DMT)
Integrated Service
Manager
Integrated Service
Manager
0 - 19
Integrated Team
Manager ( 0 – 11)
CAF/TAC coordinators
Social Workers
Family Support Workers
Parenting Support Advisors
Education Welfare Officers
Childrens Centres
Integrated Team
Manager ( 12 – 19)
CAF/TAC coordinators
Youth Support Workers
Social Workers
Education Welfare Officers
Parenting Support Advisors
Community
Development
Worker
Health Team
Manager
Health Visitors
School Nurses
Staff Nurses
Child Health Advisors
Assistant Director Integrated Services - Allan Cadzow
Across 12 – 19 Locality Teams
Haverhill and
Bury St Edmunds
Forest Heath
Thurston/High Suffolk/
Stowmarket/Stowupland
Integrated Service
Manager
Steve Watts
Integrated Service
Manager
Joy Inameti
Integrated Team
Manager
Julie Coffield
Integrated Team
Manager
Kim Hood
Felixstowe /
Woodbridge/Leiston
Lowestoft /
Waveney
Ipswich
South & West
South Suffolk
& Sudbury
Integrated Service
Manager
Brenda McInerney
Integrated Service
Manager
Jacci Spashett
Integrated Service
Manager
Clare Besley
Integrated Service
Manager
Clare Slater-Robins
Integrated Service
Manager
Anita Farrant
Integrated Team
Manager
Jo Bigger
Integrated Team
Manager
Radu Groza
Integrated Team
Manager
Carin Elvin
Integrated Team
Manager
Sorrell Grove
Integrated Team
Manager
Sallie Bloomfield
Ipswich
North & East
CAF/TAC coordinators
Social Workers
Parenting Support Advisors
Education Welfare Officers
Senior Youth Support Workers
Advanced Youth Support Workers
Youth Support Workers
YSS/ID/ISD high level structure 12-19
v2
Youth Support
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Integral to Integrated Services
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Focus on vulnerable young people -11-19 (and up to 25
for young people with additional needs) and families
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Targeted work in schools and post 16 with young people
at risk of not progressing
Local Authority Responsibilities
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Encouraging, enabling or assisting young people’s
participation in education, training or work
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Tracking young people’s participation in order to identify
those who need support utilising the local Client
Caseload Information System (CCIS)
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Completing learning difficulty assessments (under
section 139a of the Education and Skills Act 2008) for
those young people with a learning difficulty and/or
disability up to the age of 25
County Integrated Youth Support Team
Youth Support
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TheSource website – for all young people
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Future4me – Suffolk Post 16 course website
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Curriculum support and CPD opportunities
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MIS data collection and analysis
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Working in close collaboration with Backing Young
Suffolk
Contact details
Haverhill, Bury St Edmunds and Forest Heath
ISM - Steve Watts
ITM - Julie Coffield
Contact: Caxton House, 43 St Andrews Street South, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3PH, 01284 741333
Thurston/ High Suffolk/Stowmarket/Stowupland
ISM - Joy Inameti
ITM - Kim Hood
Contact: Stevens House, 17 Station Road West Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 5UA, 01449 776970
Ipswich North & East
ISM - Brenda McInerney
ITM - Jo Bigger
Contact: 17 Tower Street, Ipswich, IP1 3BE, 01473 583594
Felixstowe/ Woodbridge/Leiston
ISM - Jacci Spashett
ITM - Radu Groza
Contact: 108 Queens Road, Felixstowe, IP11 7PG, 01394 625729
Lowestoft/ Waveney
ISM - Clare Besley
ITM - Caren Elvine
Contact: Adrian House, Alexandra Road, Lowestoft, NR32 1PL, 01502 405229
Ipswich South & West
ISM - Clare Slater-Robins
ITM - Sorrell Grove
Contact: The Infobar, 37-43 Fore Street, Ipswich, IP4 1JL, 01473 341800
South Suffolk & Sudbury
ISM - Anita Farrant
ITM - Sallie Bloomfield
Contact: Belle Vue House Newton Road Sudbury CO10 2RG, 01787 379650
Allan Cadzow
Assistant Director - Integrated Service Delivery
01473 264534
Pauline Henry
County Youth Support Manager
01473 260181
Marisa Batson
Information Support and Development Manager
01473 260179
11 – 19
Youth Support