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ASCEL: Libraries and co-productionClaire Styles:Programme ManagerThe Reading Agency
Project aims:
• Support libraries to develop year-round youth co-production built on libraries’ Universal Reading Offer (URO);
• Identify partnership opportunities with Bridges and arts organisations;
• Increase awareness of relevant accreditation schemes and funding opportunities.
Why develop a year-round offer? Benefits for libraries:
• Engages the library users of the future• Benefits young people; develops skills and
community engagement• Increases capacity to run key activities• Contributes to community cohesion• Raises library profile as a volunteer provider• Helps libraries meet statutory duty
Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities
• Connect young people with their communities, enabling them to contribute to society, including through volunteering;
• Have a voice in decisions which affect their lives; • Opportunities to take part in activities;• Support personal and social development to build
the capabilities they need for learning, work, and the transition to adulthood.
Why prioritise young people now?
• 17.5 million under 25s in the UK today• 21.9% of under 25s unemployed• 40% of young people volunteer • 88% of youth media stories are negative
Recession impacts disadvantaged disproportionately:• 70% of excluded pupils have poor basic literacy.• People with poor literacy least likely to be employed at 30• Reading for pleasure is the only out-of-school activity for
16s linked to securing managerial/ professional jobs
Benefits to young people
• New skills and experience• For CV for education/ employment
Recognition/ accreditation • Work experience • To meet new people/ for fun • To give something back• Incentives
Libraries’ youth volunteers, 2012• 4,375 Summer Reading Challenge volunteers• 728 Reading Activists running 24 hubs• 950 World Book Night book givers
Book selectionDesign library spacesHelp with Under 5s Book reviewsBook awardsWork experienceMood boosting books
Reading groups Manga clubs Get It LoudLibrary consultationMagazine projectsSix Book ChallengeBookswaps
Steering groupsFriends groupsFundraisingIntergenerational Film clubsYoung InspectorsPerformances
Universal Library Offer
Free Community Space
Online access/Virtual Services
Expert Advice and Support
Free Books
Multimedia Reading Resources
Community Outreach Services
Reading Offer
Local and family history resources
Learning space and support
Information and signposting
Targeted audiences (families, CYP, Older people)
Reading promotions
Reading challenges for adults and children
Author event / performances
Bookgifting
Public involvement/
Coproduction
Information /sign posting
Accessibility Services
Online reading, resources and activites
Targeted activities for specific audiences e.g. ethnic
Summer Reading Challenge
Six Book Challenge
TRA Reading Promotions Programme
Reading Groups for Everyone including Chatterbooks
BBC
Reading Partners
Partnerships
Programme
Health and Well Being Hook
Summer Reading Challenge
Bookstart Week
Learning Hook
World Book Day/World Book Night
Calendar hooks
Programme
Black history month
National library day
National story telling week
Local history month
Older people day
Carers Week
National RG Day
Make noise in libraries
Calendar Hooks
Art org
Health
Schools
Literature Festivals
Readers Days
Local Launch Events
TV Book Club
Local
Reading
Service
SCL Prioritised Toolbox Enhanced Offer Toolbox
Bookstart and BookTime
Letterbox Club
Premier League Reading Stars
Partnerships
Local Activities
Mood Boosting Books
Quick Reads
Charities e.g. RNIB, Booktrust
Booked Up
Other Programmes TBC
Innovation & Development
Shared evidence bank
Innovationns
Evidence
Digital
Health
Co-production: Young people/My Voice
Training to support the URO
Workforce Developments
Reading groups and social reading activities
Calendar hooks
First hooks: World Book Day/ Night
• Join the Book Herd – WBD/N ambassadors• Social networking and website teen resources
written by young volunteers• ‘Party pack’ of ideas being produced• to become book givers• Teen-friendly titles
Co-production
- Approach underpinningVolunteering
- Characteristics of co-production?
Co-production means…
“… delivering public services in an equal and reciprocal relationship between professionals, people using services, their families and their neighbours. Where activities are co-produced in this way, both services and neighbourhoods become far more effective agents of change.”*
(*Right here, right now: taking co-production into the mainstream, NESTA; July 2010)
Features of co-production:• Recognising people as assets• Building on people’s existing capabilities• Mutuality and reciprocity• Peer support networks• Blurring distinctions• Facilitating rather than delivering*(*Right here, right now: taking co-production into the mainstream, NESTA; July 2010)
Volunteering: plan and sustain
Involving Young People in Advisory Groups – Flow Chart
Can you answer these questions?
- Can you explain the purpose of young peoples’ involvement?
-Will it make a difference?
-Do young people want to get involved?
-Can you resource and support the group?
-Will you act on young people’s recommendations?
- Are you willing to give up some power?
Do you know why you are setting up a young
people’s advisory group?
Yes
No
Having thought about it and talked to young people and your organisation do you now know why you want involve young people?
Will it make a difference?
-Do young people want to get involved?
-Can you resource and support the group?
-Will you listen and act on young people’s
recommendations?it make a difference?
-Do young people want to get involved?
-Can you resource and support the group?
-Will you listen and act on young people’s
Are you clear?
This might not be the right time to
involve young people
Yes No
Now there are more things you to think about: How will you recruit young people? How will you make sure young people with additional needs can get involved? How will you make sure the group is open and new members are able to join? How will you support the young people find out the views of their peers? How will you promote the young peoples’ power and influence? How canyou make sure people from across your organisation are convinced of the need to change?
This is not the right thing for your
organisation and young people at
the moment
No
Yes
AccreditationAward Age/
ability Partners Time to
achieve award Content External
requirements How assessed?
Approximate costs
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Age 14-25 highly motivated.
Schools Youth service
12-18 months Volunteering: library volunteer. Skills: Taking part in library activities e.g. reading groups
Expedition: N/A to libraries.
No cost for library service
Youth Achievement/ Challenge
Age 11-19 Any ability
Youth work partners
30-120hrs. 6-15hrs for a Challenge
Any library based activity can be counted towards Awards aligned to YP needs/ interests
None £48 p/a to register. £5-11.20 per YP. £130 staff training.
Getting Connected
Age 14-25 Suitable for NEET YP.
Youth worker; school learning mentor, PRU.
120hrs for a Profile of Achievement 30hrs per unit
Units on Using Information, Getting and Giving Support are particularly relevant to library activities
Exploring Risks and Coping with Feelings more appropriate to youth workers.
£20 per YP plus £8 per unit. £350 staff training - optional
ASDAN Activities
Age 13-19 Any ability
Youth work partners
10-60 hours (Usually 30 hrs for the Award)
Any library-based activity can be counted. Awards aligned to YP’s needs & interests
None £58.75 to register; £4.75 per YP; £79 staff training.
V50 and other vinspired awards
Age 14-25 Any ability. England only
Cabinet Office
Ideally within 12 months.
Volunteering: YP volunteer for 10hrs (v10), 50hrs (v50) 100hrs (v100). Hrs logged online or by mobile app. Once hrs completed, YP receive certificate.
None V100 needs a referee.
None. Organisations can advertise opportunities on the site too.
Arts Award
Age 7-25 Arts Council England/ Trinity
No time limit. Gold- 90hrs; Silver - 60hrs; Bronze - 40hrs Explore - 25hrs; Discover -20hrs
Creative - Any art or media activity can count towards an Arts Award.
None Portfolios assessed by a moderator.
Adviser training 95-£110; YP’s materials £3-£6 Moderation & certificates: £2.50-£32
Fundraising and collaboration
• Youth Voice funds• National Citizenship
Service• vCashpoint• O2 ThinkBig• European Youth
Programme
Using the URO as a framework, plan a year-round youth volunteer offer
Consider: • Volunteer role(s) for each hook• Who you will work with• How you could involve young people• Timescales and milestones• Resource implications• Next steps
“Before being involved in Reading Activists, I would never have dreamed I could help organize author events or interview people, I would have been really scared and worried. There’s so many skills I’ve learnt, and things it’s opened me up to do, and I’m much better at reading now, and more confident all round. Having Padgate Library with Reading Activist opportunities stops kids hanging around on the street, and gets them to see what libraries can do for them”. Tom Hotson, 15, Reading Activist, Warrington