19 Oct 2004

<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="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1 Apr 2003"><U><B>1 Apr 2003</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="10 July (AGM)"><U><B>10 July (AGM)</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="13 Nov"><U><B>13 Nov</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="20 Jan 2004"><U><B>20 Jan 2004</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="22 Jun 2004"><U><B>22 Jun 2004</B></U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19 Oct 2004</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2 Mar 2005"><U><B>2 Mar  2005</B></U></A></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>19 Oct 2004</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>Minutes of the Reading Council for Voluntary Youth Services (RCVYS)</U></B></div> <div> Meeting held on Tuesday 19 October 2004  at the YMCA, Parkside Road Reading from 12-2pm</div> <bR> <div> Present :</div> <div> Chris Evans</div> <div> Vic Hills</div> <div> Kevin terry</div> <div> Cath Bethell</div> <div> Alison Steedman</div> <bR> <div> Apologies received from: Mary Jacobs, Ray Tapken, Riannon Williams, Malcolm Pierce, Janet Shury, Tim Clewer and Chris West. </div> <bR> <div> 2 Matters arising from previous Minutes:</div> <div> It was decided to leave the name change until the next meeting</div> <bR> <div> 3 Update</div> <div> Cath is now a member of the board of CYPSP. She pointed out that there was masses of paperwork  associated with the work of the board and  very important issues around confidentiality.  The role of the board is to commission all children's services and to inform and be involved in the political process working with local councillors.</div> <bR> <div> There was a brief discussion on how the voluntary sector might wish to participate.</div> <bR> <div> Reading Trailblazers.</div> <div> This group of 12  proactive voluntary organisations has obtained funding  for a project on youth participation. It is based on peer to peer consultation to be captured on video and fed back to the strategic partnership.(nb item 5 on Agenda)</div> <bR> <div> Connexions Berkshire</div> <div> The chief executive is Katherine Horler and the  local manager for Reading Gina Carpenter. Stephan Honigsberg is the liaison person for the voluntary and community sector and responsible for E2E project.</div> <bR> <div> Reading Compact- this group is made up of the Fire, Police, voluntary sector, the Council and the health Services. The group discussed issues of principal and strategy with the intention of resolving differences to allow progress.</div> <bR> <div> 4 Kirsten Carr is the new Principal Youth Officer for Reading Borough Council and Barbara Perry will be the new Director of No5 Young People's Counselling service.</div> <bR> <div> 6 NVQ.  An NVQ in Youth work is now available for part time workers- recognition of their experience.</div> <bR> <div> 7 Funding- not discussed at this meeting</div> <bR> <div> 8 The committee was reminded that RYCVYS has funds for bursaries.</div> <bR> <div> 9 There was no update on Finance as the treasurer was not present at this meeting.  The good news is that the Development Worker post is to continue (Cath).</div> <bR> <div> The meeting closed at 2.15pm  The date of next meeting will be January 25 1-2pm at the YMCA.</div> <bR> <div> Alison Steedman</div> <div> 15 February 2005</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>