Inspiring services, Improving futures

Transforming Services

Carole Aspden

Chair

Confederation of Heads of Young People’s Services.

Reform Challenges

• Rapid and radical changes in local authority responsibilities e.g. health

• Commissioning Children’s Services and joint delivery through partnership working

• Increased demand for Children’s Services

• Funding cuts set to continue including partners.

• Challenging inspection regimes.

Reform Challenges

“There is a significant risk that we are approaching a tipping point where the only services which can be squeezed further are those non statutory prevention and early intervention services which help reduce costs further into the system.”

LGA Rewiring Public Services

Services for Young People• Understanding the discrete needs of

teenagers

• Step up/step down services successfully engaging young people

• LA role in securing the local Youth Offer

• Young people’s voice, citizenship and community responsibilities

• Gap in meeting the needs of young adults 18+ in their transition to adulthood

Youth Policy • Move to Cabinet Office gives the Youth

Sector new and different opportunities,

• Welcome the work being done on the Statutory Guidance on Positive Activities

• Development of work that promotes the wellbeing of young people

• The youth offer needs to embrace all services for young people

Conditions for Change

• Leadership – an accountable senior officer brokering the youth offer in partnerships

• Quality - securing outstanding services delivered by high calibre staff, leading to improved outcomes

• Transformed - reshaped services, new ways of working

• Sustainable – locally appropriate and funded