Issue - meetings
Youth Service Scrutiny Challenge Action Plan
Meeting: 26/11/2018 - Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 4)
4 Youth Service Challenge Session PDF 106 KB
The Committee will receive a report on the implementation of recommendations of scrutiny challenge session.
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 Youth Services Overview and Scrutiny Action Plan 2018, item 4 PDF 74 KB
- Appendix 2 Newark Case Study , View reasons restricted (4/3)
- Webcast for Youth Service Challenge Session
Minutes:
The Committee received a report on the implementation of recommendations of scrutiny challenge session that covered:
· Update on youth service priorities;
· Update on recommendations from the Scrutiny Challenge Session;
· Update on Performance; and
· Future plans and ambitions for youth services and youth voice.
The discussions arising from the presentation maybe summarised as follows:
The Committee noted that:
· The Council is working on an action focused approach to the implementation of recommendations;
· In the east of the Borough it has been identified that there are benefits in the outsourcing certain elements of youth provision as these providers are able to access funding streams not available to the Council;
· As of 28th August 2018 the Youth Service had all 8 of its Youth Hubs opened;
· Youth Service has successfully recruited new frontline staff; increasing frontline staffing by 23% from when the service was restructured in October 2017, and increasing the ratio of female staff by 12% (previously 28% of staff were female now 40% of staff are female);
· All sickness monitoring is under control;
· All Youth Hubs (internally delivered and Commissioned) and Specialist Provision have increased outputs;
· Contracted provision had 2001 contacts in July; this had increased to 2986 in September, whilst in-house provision had 1251 contacts in July; this had increased to 1837 in September;
· Strengthening young people’s participation and engagement in decision making is a vital aspect of developing the youth provision; including the elections for Young Mayor;
· It was important to speak the young people’s digital language;
· Youth provision needed to be delivered in the most effective fashion including the use of buildings and detached staff so as to meet the particular needs of young people in the Boroughs various wards and communities. The development of such provision needs to take into consideration best practice from other borough’s;
· Consideration was being given on how to develop work with those young people at risk and their families;
· The Service is looking at how to develop and exploit the full range of services available from in-house and external providers e.g. Effective sign posting for young people and providing meaningful interventions;
· There would an update next year on the development of the Borough’s in-house and external provision of the Service.
In conclusion, the Chair thanked Councillor Danny Hassell and Sandjea-Marie Green for their presentation and the work of the Council in the development of the provision of youth provision and looked forward to receiving future updates.