Children & Young People Action Group (CYPAG)
21 May 2007
Notes & Actions
Present
Pip Levett
Diana Organ
Dawn Adams
David Brown
Ivor Daniel
Sarah Pettifer
Graham Bullivant
Francis Gobey
Katie Bartlett
Tim Gisbourne
Varsha Patel
Colin Pritchard
Bilkis Bhula
Jo Hall
Jane Whitehead
Sarah Hylton
Hilary Davis
Sue Prosser
Frances Morgan
GNPN/ Chair, CYPAG
Young Gloucestershire
White City Venture
CYPD
CYPD Youth Service
SHAPE Team
“ Best Futures Team
Gloucester City Council
Matson NP
Connexions
SHAPE Team
Podsmead NP
Community Counts
Connexions
Coney Hill NP
CYPD (CYPwD)
CYPD (Commissioning)
CYPD
CYPD
Apologies
Geoff Gait-Carr, Chris Gibson, Pat Bailey, Imran Atcha, Pat Laing,
Linda Uren, Mary Welsh, Chris Sands
Nightstop Presentation
Ciaran and Sheila from Nightstop gave an overview of the new
Crashpad pilot programme with a Q&A session. For details of the
presentation and further information on Crashpad please contact:
glosnightstop@hotmail.com
Notes & actions from 20 March 2007 approved
CYPAG Admin
Admin. Support for CYPAG meetings still urgently needed. Budget
available for this role. Contact Pip
CYP with Disabilities
Sarah Hylton introduced herself as budget holding lead
professional (BHLP) for children & young people with disabilities
(CYPwD). Working towards inclusion in mainstream leisure and
recreation facilities and activities. An Inclusion Grant is now
available
to
support
this
work
–
contact
sarah.hylton@gloucestershire.gov.uk for further details.
Pupil Postcoding
Community Counts have been researching pupil postcoding and
have produced a report outlining the results. The information in this
report is sensitive and not for general release. More information
available from Bilkis Bhula bilkis.bhula@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Summer Activities Brochure
Contributions to be sent to Ivor Daniel at Chequers by 6th July.
Send details including activity; location; date; time; special
conditions (booking/ cost/ free/ open access) and accessibility for
CYPwD. Information to be collated into brochure and displayed on
Gloucester Partnership website
Area planning for CYP
A small working group will meet to look at the issues surrounding
area planning in the Gloucester District. Will report back to the next
CYPAG meeting – see notes attached.
Next CYPAG meetings
Tuesday 10th July 12.00 to 14.00 @ White City Adventure
Playground, Northfield Road, Gloucester
Tuesday 25th September
Tuesday 27th November
Pip Levett
CYPAG – Terms of Reference –15 June 2007
The remit of this task-and-finish subgroup was to propose some
revisions to CYPAG’s terms of reference in light of its new role as
an area planning group of the CYPSP as well as a thematic action
group of the Gloucester Partnership.
The subgroup recognises that CYPAG has a long history of
successful partnership activity that has drawn strength from the
following factors:
 Strong and balanced involvement from statutory, voluntary and
community sectors
 Involvement from frontline professionals in diverse fields across
the whole age range from 0 to 24
 Connections, communication and networking between services
working with CYP individually and those working with
communities of CYP (e.g. at district or neighbourhood level)
 Ability to agree and focus (each year) on specific partnership
priorities and actions.
Proposals
That CYPAG’s interprets the priorities and outcomes in the CYP
Plan and LAA CYP Block for the Gloucester context and plans
local partnership actions on behalf of the CYPSP (with a possible
local commissioning function to follow).
That, based on this interpretation, CYPAG contributes local
partnership actions on CYP issues to the Sustainable Community
Strategy for Gloucester City, especially its Three-year Action
Plans.
That CYPAG is accountable for these local partnership actions and
responsible for reporting on them to the CYPSP (via the District
Network to the CYPSP Executive – see diagram) and to the GP
Executive (directly – see diagram).
That CYPAG continues to promote the engagement and
involvement of CYP so that they can influence decisions that affect
their lives, and will, where necessary, gather CYP voices, opinions
and local knowledge on areas of partnership concern such as play,
outdoor environment, community safety, and new developments.
That CYPAG continues to follow its overarching vision: Over the
next 7 years, to make it easier for children and young people in
Gloucester to be healthy and safe, enjoy & achieve, make a
positive contribution and achieve economic well being.
That CYPAG continues to put the following principles into action:
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Deliver, through joint working, a range of improved facilities
and services for children and young people in Gloucester.
Promote community cohesion and integration, and offer
opportunities for young people from the various and diverse
communities within Gloucester to meet and work together.
Support young people to play an active part in their own
safety and reduce the risk of becoming involved with crime.
Tackle specific problems requiring partnership action one at
a time, monitor progress each meeting, and get a result.
Promote volunteering within and across communities, on
both youth-related and whole-community projects.
Set up Task and Finish sub-groups for particular issues.
Members of Terms of Reference subgroup: Pip Levett, Francis
Gobey, David Brown, Sarah Hylton, Karen Watson, Ivor Daniel
Meetings: 5 June 2007
CYPAG in relation to the Gloucester Partnership
GP Executive
Sustainable Community Strategy for Gloucester City
2007 - 2017
CYPAG
Children
& Young
People
Action
Group
WPAG
Westgate
Priority
Action
Group
CDRP
Crime &
Disorder
Reduction
Healthy
City
Partner
-ship
Partnership
Local Area Agreement LAA: Five Blocks
LDF Local
Development
Framework
Community
Forum
CYPAG in relation to the Gloucestershire CYPSP
Gloucester
Partnership
is one of
these!
CYPAG is
one of these!
Key to acronyms
CYPAG
Children & Young People Action Group (Gloucester)
GP
Gloucester Partnership (Gloucester)
CDRP
Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (Gloucester)
CYPP
Children & Young People Plan (Countywide)
CYPSP
Children & Young People Strategic Partnership (Countywide)
YOF/YCF
Youth Opportunity Fund / Youth Capital Fund (Countywide)
CAF
Common Assessment Framework (Countywide)
YIST
Youth Inclusion Support Team (Countywide)
BEST
Best Futures Team (Gloucester Excellence Cluster)
FIP
Family Intervention Project (Gloucester CDRP)