1. C H I L D R E N A N D A D U L T S – L E A R N I N G A N D C A R I N G Integrated Youth Support Services – a partnership Juliet Sevior Assistant Director, Inclusion

2. C H I L D R E N A N D A D U L T S – L E A R N I N G A N D C A R I N G Norming, storming and forming The board membership: IYSS service manager Medway Youth Trust Chief Executive Officer Voluntary Sector Medway DAAT Police YOT Teenage pregnancy co-ordinator PCT Housing service manager Children’s social care – IAT service manager Sports development manager Ignite manager Commissioning Manager AD Inclusion

3. C H I L D R E N A N D A D U L T S – L E A R N I N G A N D C A R I N G Priorities Not in education employment or training (NEETs) Homelessness Teenage pregnancy Places to go things to do Youth crime Targeted support – identification, prevention and intervention

4. C H I L D R E N A N D A D U L T S – L E A R N I N G A N D C A R I N G What’s all this about anyway? The board have met 3 times Connections and grasping the enormity of the task How? When? Who? Communication and understanding – growing and will become embedded

5. C H I L D R E N A N D A D U L T S – L E A R N I N G A N D C A R I N G Commissioning Different levels of understanding Budgets and decisions – how it is now will not be how it remains Commissioning reviews MAY be painful Provider / commissioner split is not ‘pure’

6. C H I L D R E N A N D A D U L T S – L E A R N I N G A N D C A R I N G And now…. IYSS action plan to monitor Review cycle Build and extend existing good partnership working – in spite of budget decisions