young people not in education, employment or training (neet) in charlestown & lower kersal
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Young People not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in
Charlestown & Lower Kersal
Contents of this report
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Rationale, process & stakeholder engagement
Rationale
Process
Stakeholder engagement
• Priority within the LAA re. addressing economic prosperity• NDC area contains highest NEET in the City• Key issue within the NDC Education Strategy
• Core Team established• Defining the NEET issue: age 16 – 18 and age 11 + • Detailed picture of cause and effect of the NEET issue • Clarity around the services and system in place to support and prevent NEET young people• Action Plan – short, medium and long term
• Project Champion • Stakeholder mapping • Workshops with Strategic and Frontline Workers • Focus groups with NEET young people and and one to ones • Individual meetings and follow ups
LAA target
• Objective 1 – Improve economic prosperity through educational attainment, skills, employment and enterprise:Outcome 3 – Improved economic wellbeing of young people: reduce the percentage of 16 -18 year olds not in education, employment or training Baseline 2006/07 – 8.4%Target 2009/10 – 7%
Baseline: what the data tells us
NEET % by Ward October 2007
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Salford
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Linear (Irwell R)
Linear (Kersal)
Baseline: what the data tells us
Baseline: what the data tells us
NEET (October 2007)
60 young people, of which
Short – term NEET (Churn)
46 young people
Long – term NEET : Over 20 weeks (Stock)
14 young people
Unknowns
42 young people
Long - term
4 teenage parents (2 aged 17 / 2 aged 18)
1 young carer aged 18
1 young person in custody aged 18
4 young people aged 17
4 young people aged 18
NEET
51 young people seeking education, employment or training, incl.
13 young people with Youth Offending Service involvement
12 young people with housing issues
16 young people with special educational needs
Baseline: what the data tells us
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age 16 age 17 age 18 age 16 age 17 age 18
Irwell Riverside Kersal
Male
Female
NEET by Gender Breakdown
Baseline: what the data tells us
Maximum Qualification Level Achieved
05
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Not known below Level1
Level 1 Level 2
Irwell Riverside (Q22007)
Kersal (Q2 2007)
National (Q4 2006)
Baseline: what the data tells us
Baseline: what the data tells us
Young People aged 11 - 16 (out of education)
2006/07 (The Albion High and All Hallows RC Schools)
• 52 pupils with fixed term exclusions in NDC area (14%). This figure
is declining.
• 3 pupils with permanent exclusions in NDC area (0.8%)
Summer Term 2007
• 60 pupils (Years 7 – 10) had unauthorised absences (16.2%)
Autumn Term 2007 (The Albion High)
• 23 pupils on alternative / part time curriculum
Stakeholder perspectives: the story behind the baseline
Family e.g. in and out of low
skilled jobs
Cultural e.g. grey economy
Services e.g. a
need for on going
support
NEET IN NDC AREA
Individual e.g.
learning difficulties
Family e.g. lack of
parental support
Cultural e.g. peer pressure
Services e.g. neg.
experience of school
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Individual e.g. poor
attainment, worklessness
The human story: what this could mean if you are born and raised in Charlestown and Lower Kersal
Case Study - Pre 16
• Yr 10 50% attendance & disruptive
• Home issues – alcohol and absent father
• Interventions from COMPACT & Cyclone work placement
• School attendance increased and placement continued through summer
• Yr 11 detention for previous year, school refused
Case Study - Post 16
• Poor attendance in Yr 11, Connexions interventions starting in March
• Refuses assistance despite significant parental support
• Leaves school with no destination
• Registers with e2e, but is dismissed for smoking cannabis
• Found casual labour but is now out of work
Summary of the issue analysis
• 60 young people in Irwell Riverside / Kersal wards (of which 36 in NDC area)
• Irwell Riverside twice the Salford and national average• Not a static number or picture over the year• People in and out of the system and long term NEET• 42 unknowns / excludes traveller community• Issue of school pupils ‘out of education’ • Causes and effects of NEET varied and complex
• Strong link to special educational needs (cause), low skills and worklessness (effect)
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Understanding Need
Amber
Data
- Detailed data available at the local level but not always used or shared- Issue of ‘unknowns’- Missing data re. traveller young people
Performance Monitoring - Mainly city wide rather than neighbourhood based- Outputs v outcomes
Role of community engagement
- Collective localised opportunity for community / frontline worker input ?
Planning and deciding
Amber
Governance and accountability- City wide 13-19 Partnership and NEET sub group Strategic and operational planning- Partnership approach but not local Scope and nature of procurement activity- Fragmented / inflexible - Short term v long term Coordination and openness of procurement- Open to contest?- Role for third sector?
Delivery Chain analysis: the pillars of commissioning
Delivery Chain analysis: the pillars of commissioning
Delivering
Amber
Accessibility- Good range of locally based services but limited outreach Coordination- Need better awareness/referral mechanisms Efficiency/value- Potential duplication of effort- Value of third sector Incentives/motivations for deliverers and customers- Deliverers - quantity v quality- Customers – financial (pos/neg) Outcomes- NEET being reduced / good practice
Reviewing and Learning
Amber
Evaluation of impact- Regular performance monitoring but not locally focused - Tracking and longer term impact?- Impact of third sector? Learning about good practice- Good practice shared between partners but at a local level?
Perspectives on the System
Dealing with
NEET in NDC
Commissioners /
Strategic
‘early intervention required’
‘system is
fragmented’
Young People
‘unwilling to listen’
‘grateful for support and
wide ranging advice’
Front line worker
‘learning mentors in
school are great’
‘people don’t know what
others are doing’
Volunteers
‘not given the recognition
we deserve’
‘reliant on small grants’
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Summary of the key strengths
Local data available
Joint Planning
Improvement, commitment
and good practice
NEET in Charlestown & Lower Kersal
Broad range of services and
providersPartnership working
Summary of the key challenges
Information / data sharing
Ensuring local input in to planning
Funding issues / changes
NEET in Charlestown & Lower Kersal
Gaps in the service ‘offer’ Communication and
referral
Principles for a reformed approach
• The range of services to support NEET young people should work as one cohesive, integrated system
• The funders of services in the area should co-ordinate to ensure a cohesive and effective service
• Services should be able to respond to the different needs and circumstances of NEET young people, built on a sound information base.
• The system needs to be more effective upstream i.e. early intervention
• There should be opportunity for a range of providers to work as part of the system.
• Frontline workers should be motivated, valued and rewarded. • The system should learn from ‘what works’ and support cultural
change.
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Results achieved during the trial
• Focus Group with NEET young people has provided positive role models and a change in working practice.
• Commitment to outreach between NDC Youth Participation and Oliver’s Gym Youth Club/Amber project
• Greater local awareness between service providers
• Data shared for the first time• Energy about the issue• Better understanding about ‘unknowns’
Proposals to improve outcomes
Short/Medium/LongOver-arching Proposals
Development of local Integrated Youth Support Service with an initial focus on NEET young people
Short
Medium
Medium
Development of a Locality Commissioning Model
NEET as a target in new LAA with a geographical focus
Proposals to improve outcomes
Issue Short/Medium/LongProposal
Earlier intervention from age 10 -13.
Medium
Gaps in service offer
Short
Communication and Referral
One to one support e.g. individual mentoring
Further development of directory of available services, differentiated by type of provision (WUU2).
Medium
Proposals to improve outcomes
Issue Short/Medium/LongProposal
Medium
Local input in to planning
Medium
Long
Common Assessment Framework / Family Action Model / Lead Professional – additional training and focused roll – out.
Communication and Referral cont.
Local Marketing Campaign
Look at role of third sector providers in the system
Proposals to improve outcomes
Issue Short/Medium/Long Proposal
Medium Information / Data sharing
Short
Funding issues / changes
Look at opportunities for mainstreaming / further funding for time expired good practice
Medium
Use of Salford Observatory to focus on a LAA priority with a neighbourhood focus
Support capacity of third sector providers and mainstream commissioners
Develop protocols for data sharing
Long
Scope for innovation?
• Role of ICT in future actions around communication / data sharing
• New models of commissioning particularly around third sector procurement
• Extend scope of Integrated Youth Support Service from age 13 –19 to age 10 - 19
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Enabling measures required to deliver improved outcomes
• Ownership of Action Plan
• Sharing and understanding of local data
• Local performance management
• Local partnership development
• Development of commissioning e.g. joint working, more localised, potential providers
• Role, support and capacity of third sector
2. The baseline and the story behind it
3. The current public service response
4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach
5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)
1. Rationale, process and stakeholders
6. Enabling measures
7. Learning from the Spotlight trial
Summary of learning from this Spotlight trial
Process• First Spotlight so methodology was still being developed as the trial went
‘live’• Importance of Project Champion • Need to expand core team• Resource intensive so need to plan accordingly • Issue of ethics, trust and consent when working with potentially vulnerable
people • Need to build in opportunities to verify findings with different stakeholder
groups • Need to look at good practice from elsewhere • Learning shared and built in to other SpotlightsIssue of NEET • Created energy and focus • Robust and rapid process • Know a lot more about the issue and have a clear way forward
Young People not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in
Charlestown & Lower Kersal