CYPSP update

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="09ed05a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>          </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>                             </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>    Reading Council for Voluntary Youth Service</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> </B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="09fd2123.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Partnership Questionnaire"><U><B>Partnership Questionnaire</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mainstreaming Questionnaire"><U><B>Mainstreaming Questionnaire</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bursary Application Process"><U><B>Bursary Application Process</B></U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">CYPSP update </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Reading Council for Voluntary Youth "><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>CYPSP update </I></div> <div> <B>Reading </B><I><B>C</B></I><B>hildren and </B><I><B>Y</B></I><B>oung </B><I><B>P</B></I><B>eople’s </B><I><B>S</B></I><B>trategic </B><I><B>P</B></I><B>artnership Update</B></div> <bR> <div> The CYPSP is composed of representatives from all of the agencies (including the voluntary, community and faith sectors) that deliver services to 0-19 year olds in Reading.</div> <bR> <div> The CYPSP operates at three different levels:</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Board</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="TrebuchetMS" >, which is made up of Members and senior officers. It meets monthly and takes responsibility for the strategic direction of 0-19 services and is ultimately accountable for performance.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Secretariat</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="TrebuchetMS" >, which is made up of senior officers with responsibility for strategic planning or commissioning services. It meets monthly and is primarily responsible for translating strategy into the planning and organisation or integration of services.</FONT></div> <div> <B>The wider partnership</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="TrebuchetMS" >, which encompasses the breadth of providers of 0-19 services. This group meets once a year to review the direction, achievements and effectiveness of 0-19 provision.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Information Sharing and Assessment</B></div> <div> The ISA project is a national project overseen by the Children Young People and Families Directorate (central government), each Local Authority has a series of deliverables (areas of actions) to meet and complete by March 2005. The purpose of the project is to improve the systems and processes in place to share information about children and young people between professionals of different agencies.</div> <bR> <div> Some of the most critical developments of this project of most interest to practitioners are:</div> <bR> <div> <B>A service directory</B>. A web-based system that will clearly list and outline every service offered by all of the agencies operating in the Reading area. The site will be written to be accessible to children and young people, a group of young people are helping with the design. Professionals of all agencies will be provided with a password to</div> <div> access restricted fields for each of the services. It is hoped that the site will provide professionals with a tool to identify services in Reading and clearly signpost eligibility criteria, contacts for enquiries and referral routes. The directory will be available in March 2005.</div> <bR> <div> <B>An information sharing protocol</B>. This will provide us with a stronger legal foundation for sharing information between professionals of different agencies, particularly when there are developing concerns, but the child or young person is not deemed to be at immediate risk. This will be in place by March 2005.</div> <div> Training and guidance documents for professionals. We will produce guidance on sharing information with and without consent, gaining consent and referral processes.</div> <div> Central government and local authoritiesmalike are working towards the development and implementation of a database system that will allow each child or young person to be identified individually and for the list of professionals the young person is associated with to be clearly signposted. The database will provide a mechanism for practitioners to identify the range of professionals engaged with young person and share information if and when this is appropriate. A national consultation on the details of the database is underway, feedback is expected in March 2005, it is not anticipated that any sensitive information relating to a young person will be displayed on this system.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Local Preventative Strategy</B></div> <div> The Local Preventative Strategy is being developed by the CYPSP. The purpose of this strategy is to consider how the range of services offered to the 0-19 age range could be developed to provide a greater focus on identifying and responding to the early signs of difficulties or developing areas of concerns appropriately. It is hoped that this</div> <div> approach will reduce the number of children and young people that develop significant difficulties and require more intensive intervention (e.g. Looked After Children, Young Offenders). The framework for the strategy is currently being developed in partnership with colleagues who have strategic planning responsibility. Consultations with young people have already started and are set to continue in the New Year. Practitioners will be consulted in the New Year primarily through the use of focus groups. We hope to publish the strategy in April 2005. A young persons' version of the strategy will follow shortly afterwards.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Consultation</B></div> <div> The CYPSP has commissioned a working group to develop a vision and framework for consultation and participation that all agencies could use. The group ran a conference for young people in November and has been visiting youth clubs to have detailed discussions with children and young people about how they feel comfortable</div> <div> having their voice heard. At the same time the group have been working with a group of parents to explore how parents can become more involved in influencing service delivery.</div> <div> We are hoping to develop a range of mechanisms that agencies can tap into to consult with young people effectively about their services, including a youth forum (linking into school councils); creative mechanisms including art and drama; and interactive peer led approaches, targeted at hard-to-reach groups. The group is working closely with the voluntary, community and faith sector to develop a video project in which hard-to-reach young people will be trained in using video to express their views, it is hoped that these young people will be able reach out to and consult with other young people.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector</B></div> <div> A group of twelve VC&F sector organisations have grouped together to establish a working group called the 'Trailblazers'. The group facilitates a two-way communication mechanism with the CYPSP to meaningfully represent interests of these organisations; it disseminate developments to smaller organisations; and it is developing joint funding proposals. The first joint project of this group is the video consultation project.</div> <bR> <div> If you have any questions or would like to get more involved in any of</div> <div> the above please contact Andrea King at</div> <div> andreaking.cypsp@reading.gov.uk</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>