Targeted youth support pathfinder
Targeted
youth support pathfinder local models
Reports are now available for many of the local pathfinder models.
The Youth Matters green paper (July 2005) sets out the vision of targeted and integrated youth support, with the aim of improving outcomes for at-risk young people.
The move to more integrated service provision presents many challenges, not least the melding of diverse work cultures and processes such as information sharing and assessments.
To help make this change as effective as possible, 14 local authority area children's trusts have been participating (since September 2005) in a one-year pathfinder, building on work they have already done in developing effective support and challenge services for young people. These children's trusts have helped create and validate this toolkit.
The pathfinder children's trusts were chosen for their diversity, geographical spread and encouragement of multi-agency and partnership arrangements. Their TYS redesign has been driven by the views, experiences and needs of at-risk young people. Key to this is ensuring the holistic needs of young people are identified and addressed early, with a focus on prevention, support and early intervention.
Click for details of the scope defined by each pathfinder.
Click for details of the critical questions identified by each pathfinder.
Issues being addressed include:
- Specific challenges such as substance abuse, bullying, exclusion,
truanting, offending, teenage pregnancy, behavioural and learning difficulties
and mental health issues
- Membership, location, powers, governance and budgets of multi-agency
teams
- Forms of multi-agency working: integrating support across boundaries with
mainstream and universal services and children's transition from child to
adolescent services
- Children's transition through the phases from early years to adolescent
services
- Strategic workforce implications of the redesigned service, including
cultural change
- Development of effective cross-agency management structures
- Ensuring effective planning of training need through workforce reform
- Implications for individual roles and responsibilities across all
services
- Support for the joint planning and commissioning agenda
- Analysis of local needs on an evidence base
- Creating the case for integrating and pooling budgets
This page was last updated on 06 February 2007
