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 SeviorAssistant Director,

Inclusion

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 formingThe 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

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

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

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’

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