1. Use of grants budget from April 2008 1. Roll forward for first quarter All organisations that received non-infrastructure funding from the CYPD grants budget this year Use as you wish - a mixture of service provision and capacity building to prepare for the new funding regime Tell us your three months planned usage on your 07-08 monitoring form

2. Commissioning Team will commission using both grants budget and other funding streams: Business Support for Early Years Emotional Health and Wellbeing Children’s Fund Aiming High for Disabled Children Connexions Positive Activities for Young People Other CYPD funding to VCS Use of grants budget from April 2008

3. Three year contracts: Infrastructure support for the sector (April 08) Parenting support (July 08) Young people’s counselling (October 08)

4. Use of grants budget from April 2008 Other likely areas of work for contracting: Preventative youth work Disabled children Other?

5. Use of grants budget from April 2008 Decisions on future of other areas of work currently grant-funded: Will not be able to support all the valuable work being done Turn of year discussion amongst CYPD and VCS representatives about remaining priority areas of work, in light of CYPSP priorities, the Children and Young People’s Plan and the 2007/8 Needs Analysis

6. Use of grants budget from April 2008 Should we recommend retaining some small grants? £20,000 total for grants? Amounts of up to £1,000 per organisation ? For organisations with annual turnover of less than £10,000 ?