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Targeted youth support: redesigning services to help young people with particular needs

In these case studies, the pathfinders describe how they are redesigning their TYS services to achieve the outcomes set out in Every Child Matters and reiterated in Youth Matters: Next Steps.

Young people often have a variety of issues and needs and the associated risk and resilience factors need to be looked at holistically. Many of the case studies could therefore fit under more than one heading. We therefore recommend that you download the case study grid for a comprehensive view of where the case studies apply.

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Tackling antisocial behaviour, offending and recidivism

Youth inclusion and youth services link to prevent offending

Addressing youth offending by providing things to do

Linking TYS, extended schools and services for children and families

Schools and other agencies work together to identify at-risk young people at an earlier age 

Improving mental well-being

Building on best practice to support young people with problems in behaviour and mental wellbeing

Improving mental health of young people

Bringing health and educational psychology together to provide holistic support

Supporting looked-after children and social care

Improving support for young people in care

Improving prevention and early intervention in families with social care problems

Supporting parents

Supporting parents to maximise the effectiveness of structured parenting programmes

Easing transition between key stages

Supporting transition at Key Stage 3

Supporting young people through key stage transitions and NEET

Collaborating to support transitions

Providing things to do and places to go

Rationalising resources to provide better things to do

Helping young people devise a summer activities programme

Things to do in a very rural setting

Things to do and places to go to benefit all young people

Developing alternatives to school as part of things to do 

More things to do and places to for at risk young people

Reducing teenage pregnancy

Universal services link with teenage pregnancy, substance misuse and looked after children

Improving sexual health services for young people

Making sexual health services more effective

Rolling out good practice around teenage pregnancy through the targeted youth support change process

Supporting young people with substance misuse concerns

Improves support for young people with concerns around alcohol and substance misuse

Tackling alcohol and substance misuse

Improving behaviour

Tackling bullying

Reducing school exclusions

Developing alternatives to school as part of things to do

Linking TYS, extended schools and services for children and families

Regeneration

Neighbourhood development considers needs of young people

Urban regeneration listening to needs of young people

Engaging young people

Services respond to the views of young people

Vulnerability audits

Developing and using vulnerability audits 

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This page was last updated on 24 July 2007