1. Developing Integrated Youth Support Services in Leicestershire
Neil Hanney
Senior Strategy Manager
Integrated Youth Support
Leicestershire County Council

2. Integrated youth support services Targeted youth support
The Integrated Youth Offer links with many elements of the ECM agenda and Targeted Youth Support cannot be delivered without these
Targeted youth support
Information, advice & guidance
Positive activities
Community & volunteering
By December 08 to reform radically support services for vulnerable young people and their families
Youth
matters
Integrated youth support services
Targeted youth support
Extended services
Children’s centres
Common Assessment Framework
Lead Professional
14-19 Next Steps
Workforce development
Respect
National Service Framework
Commiss-ioning
Building Schools for the Future
NEET, drugs, parenting etc strategies
Teenage Pregnancy Strategy 2

3. Government expectation that partners
Why make changes?
Government expectation that partners
transform leisure-time opportunities and
support services.
Even for high performing authorities like ours
Improve life chances of all young people
Emphasis on a more preventative system
Build resilience
Intervene sooner when problems arise

4. Active involvement of partners
Guided by IYSS Steering Group
Reported to 13+ Group, CYP Exec and CYP Board
Each partner agency responsible for engaging their own staff in discussions and keeping them up to speed
Draft recommendations and consultation
Revised recommendations
Working on an Implementation Plan

5. Leicestershire’s Approach to Integrated working
Brings together a number of policy areas: the common assessment framework, extended services, the development of school partnerships to improve behaviour and reduce absence and the developing role of area special schools.
The approach is based on the ‘windscreen of need’ model which describes both additional needs and provision made for children and young people with varying levels of difficulty.

6. Integrated Working in Leicestershire
We’ve developed an integrated working model for Leicestershire – lead by CYPS based on a windscreen
Looked at needs of young people and how different levels of services can best meet those needs
Windscreen model seeks to offer children and young people support at an early stage as well as supporting young people to move down the windscreen.
Universal: Two thirds (66%) of children and young people will have their needs met by universal services; those that you can walk into off the street so to speak, such as Accident and Emergency, GPs, Youth Clubs and schools
Targeted: Just under a third (30%) will need additional support in the form of targeted services
Specialist: Some 3% will need access to specialist services, such as hospital, social care support, or special schools
Highly Specialist: 1% who need highly specialist services/support which may be regionally based rather than locally based, such as residential special school, young offender institutions, or specialist regional medical provision.
Identifies levels of children and young peoples needs as well as the levels that the services operate at.
Adopted by agencies across Leicestershire – common language
Multi-agency forums based around schools
Early identification of vulnerable young people through CAF
Multi-agency plans drawn up to meet identified needs
Area Placement Panels for young people at risk of exclusion and excluded from school
Head teachers work together to find alternative placements for young people
Additional support also identified for young people

7. AN AGREED APPROACH TO IYSS DELIVERY
Part of a larger agenda of local integration
Not create a new service called IYSS
Partner agencies should improve how we currently operate as a ‘network’ using local knowledge and data to plan, commission and deliver services at a local level
A local youth offer that is available for all and with a planned emphasis towards vulnerable young people

8. AN AGREED APPROACH TO IYSS DELIVERY
IYSS should cover the secondary school age range
Extended Services Locality Partnership Groups might expand their brief to incorporate IYSS
Partner resources are re-focussed
Explore the potential of co-location
Create multi-agency ‘hubs’ for service delivery and staff work bases, with strong outreach capacity

9. TARGETED YOUTH SUPPORT (TYS)
For individuals experiencing difficulties and for groups with high risk factors
TYS network further enhanced within each locality
All partner agencies identify a nominated link worker to liaise with TYS network
Agencies identify how they will increase the capacity to contribute to TYS in each locality.

10. A locality network for TYS?

11. Existing targeted work will form part of a bigger picture of TYS
Preventative group work
Commissioned
work from VCS
Links with
schools/FE
Outreach
IAG
Targeted Universal
Positive Activities &Youth Work
Universal Targeted
Generate CAF
when necessary
Act as Lead
Professional
Links to local
Health Managers
Support CAF exits
Link to wider Family Support
Joint work with YOS Prevention
Priority neighbourhoods
Targeted Voice
of YP work

12. Common Assessment Framework as part of TYS
Multi-agency Forums
Established around families of schools and developed in every locality across Leicestershire
YISP Panels have been merged with the forums
Enables the early identification of vulnerable young people through CAF
Attended by a range of agencies (statutory and voluntary)
Multi-agency plans are drawn up to meet children and young peoples identified needs
Featured as good practice by the Children’s Commissioner in a programme for Teachers TV

13. Area Placement Panels
For young people at risk of exclusion and excluded from school
Led by CYPS, Locality Support Services
Head Teachers work together to find alternative placements for young people
Additional support is also identified for young people where needed
Picked up as best practice in the East Midlands in the recent study by SEN Regional partnership in a study commissioned by East Midlands Regional Partnership

14. Targeted Youth Support
TYS supports transition
into Universal for YP who also
access Tier 2,3 or 4 services.
Will provide targeted group work
and individual support in response to
needs identified at higher tiers
A focus on Prevention and
Intervention at tier 2

15. Benefits of a TYS network
Working in partnership with other agencies and professions to ensure prevention and early intervention with early identification of risk
Joint working arrangements with schools, school support services and other professionals, including information sharing
Strong links to CAF forums
More holistic and co-ordinated support, including support for families
Improved support across transitions
Co-ordinated and more flexible contribution to community safety
Bring greater coherence to the planning, commissioning and delivery of services for vulnerable teenagers.
More targeted group positive activities providing Personal & Social Development
Early intervention via universal settings. Strengthen the response to early problems within universal settings.
Whenever appropriate TYS should help young people with additional needs to settle back into and thrive in universal settings as soon as possible
Strong supervision and support for practitioners

16. Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance
Core business for Connexions
Continuing focus on progression
13-19 vertical case loading
Universal via PAs working in schools, Connexions offices, web, literature
Meet IAG quality standards
Connexions continue SLAs with schools
Ensure impartial IAG
Enhance Careers Education and broader IAG in universal settings e.g. schools/colleges
Other agencies also offering IAG e.g Health, Housing, VCS

17. Aiming High- Positive Activities
The duty on local authorities to
secure access to positive activities
sufficient educational leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of young peoples’ well-being; and
sufficient recreational leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of their well-being.
These are referred to in the legislation as ‘positive leisure-time activities’.
Youth Service is by no means the only provider of these activities
Positive activities can build resilience and social and emotional skills.
A national indicator to monitor increasing the proportion of young people
participating in positive activities

18. Aiming High- Positive Activities
Increase local co-ordination capacity
Get to know what’s out there and spot gaps
Check what YP want and like and involve them
Co-ordinate to fill gaps and avoid duplication
Engage and support VCS
Publicise and promote activities
Increase mobile/outreach provision
Link with ‘v’ programme for young volunteers
Know total resource available in a District
Local shaping of commissioning – even if actual task done centrally: a local forum to agree
Help grow the ‘market’- Support for new community groups/volunteers
Safeguarding and Quality assurance

19. Making a Positive Contribution
The Pyramid of Participation should be the preferred system for involving young people
Active involvement reinforced through the implementation of the Hear By Right framework by all partners
The Youth Service will be the lead agency for supporting the County Youth Council (CYCLe)
Youth Service to develop SLAs with local partners for supporting District Youth Councils

20. Hinckley & Bosworth and NW Leics
Two Pilots next year
February 2009 to end of June 2009
Hinckley & Bosworth and NW Leics