Schools and Youth Services
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Tom Hackney
28 November 2011, 9:26pm |
Anyone working within a school which has co-located youth services? After a long absence, our new integrated youth service is back to building partnerships with local schools and it would be good to get some ideas about making these arrangements work in the Age of the Academy |
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Paddy 05 December 2011, 5:00pm |
Hi Tom, we'll be publishing our Extra-curricular practice series document next week about partnership working - so keep an eye out for it. Lots of it is fairly generic, but still it will be useful, I'm sure. And I'm out hunting for you and tweeting a few of our members for ideas. |
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Linda Crayton
06 December 2011, 12:54pm |
our Youth Service works with some of our pupils after school two days a weeek to deliver a personal development course called Feel Good. It looks at confidence building addressing issues the youngsters may have such as living with domestic violence or lack of meals at home. It is making a difference to some of our most disadvantaged youngsters who are more comfortable in the relaxed and informal setting at our local youth centre. Linda |
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Sean Carter
14 December 2011, 2:41pm |
Hi Tom, In Kent we have a successful Community Youth Tutor model working across approx 20 schools. These posts are 60% youth service funded, and 40% funded by the school, but their time is split between supporting and running groups for pupils during the day, including delivering elements of PSHE (SRE, drugs education, etc.)and citizenship, and running youth provision for the wider community during evenings and weekends using the school as the base. These posts have been in existence now for approximately 7 years, and in these times of austerity, this model still seems to be working well. In fact our Youth Service has recently consulted on a restructure, and proposed to protect the current Community Youth Tutors and look to expand the programme. Please do get in contact if you would like any more information. Sean. |
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Paddy 20 December 2011, 10:51am |
Tom, I'm freewheeling a bit here. This is an old document; however, look at page 8. It got me thinking that local authority youth services that want to co-locate in some way within schools probably need to seek the partnership route, but also, using citizenship activities as the underlying rationale could open up some avenues that would be mutually appealing to schools and LA youth services...? Just a thought. Also, you might want to come along to our free training - there could be people at the meeting with whom your local authority youth service could form productive networks - or even people from voluntary sector organisations (or schools) who do have ideas about how schools and LA youth services could work together in various types of partnerships. Also Youth Justice has always worked within schools in many different ways. Perhaps people there could be helpful? |
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Paddy 26 February 2012, 4:26pm |
Tom, hi again. Here, at last, is something - which you may already have seen - but I thought I'd post it anyway, in case it might be useful for others too. It's a report about a youth funding project: The local youth offer: working with the private, voluntary and community sectors to provide services to young people and it has some case studies in it showing how councils have managed to keep their youth offers going. Hope it's useful - Let us know? and hope you're well. |
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