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What do we mean by Youth Support? Youth Support addresses the risk factors that may result in poor outcomes and helps build vulnerable young peoples resilience

Youth Support aims to: Develop young people’s social and emotional skills enabling them to make positive choices, manage change and navigate risk Raise young people’s aspirations and help them to achieve and feel positive towards learning Help foster supportive and positive families, communities and peer groups

Youth Support is part of Early Intervention / Prevention Early intervention is defined as “ intervening early and as soon as possible to tackle problems emerging for young people and their families or with a population most at risk of developing problems. Early intervention may occur at any point in a child or young persons life”

Key processes and tools across the continuum of needs and services I = Identification and action T = Transition N = Needs met

Identify and intervene early Universal services Targeted services Specialist services Support transitions in and out of specialist services Address current issues Preventproblems Effective support puts the young person’s life journey at the centre

Integrated Services Seven locality teams focusing on early intervention and prevention Working with children young people and families to promote: safety, wellbeing and learning Teams include a wide range of professionals including health

Assistant Director Integrated Services Integrated Service Manager Integrated Service Manager Integrated Service Manager Integrated Service Manager Integrated Service Manager Integrated Service Manager Integrated Service Manager CAF/TAC coordinators Youth Support Workers Social Workers Education Welfare Officers Parenting Support Advisors Community Health Services Lead (sits on DMT) Health Visitors School Nurses Staff Nurses Child Health Advisors CAF/TAC coordinators Social Workers Family Support Workers Parenting Support Advisors Education Welfare Officers Integrated Team Manager ( 0 – 11) Integrated Team Manager ( 12 – 19) Health Team Manager Childrens Centres Community Development Worker Named Nurses Safeguarding INTEGRATED SERVICES

Assistant Director Integrated Services - Allan Cadzow Across 12 – 19 Locality Teams Integrated Service Manager Steve Watts Integrated Service Manager Joy Inameti Integrated Service Manager Brenda McInerney Integrated Service Manager Jacci Spashett Integrated Service Manager Clare Besley Integrated Service Manager Clare Slater-Robins Integrated Service Manager Anita Farrant Haverhill and Bury St Edmunds Forest Heath Thurston/High Suffolk/ Stowmarket/Stowupland Ipswich North & East Felixstowe / Woodbridge/Leiston Lowestoft / Waveney Ipswich South & West South Suffolk & Sudbury Integrated Team Manager Julie Coffield Integrated Team Manager Kim Hood Integrated Team Manager Jo Bigger Integrated Team Manager Radu Groza Integrated Team Manager Carin Elvin Integrated Team Manager Sorrell Grove Integrated Team Manager Sallie Bloomfield CAF/TAC coordinators Social Workers Parenting Support Advisors Education Welfare Officers Senior Youth Support Workers Advanced Youth Support Workers Youth Support Workers YSS/ID/ISD high level structure v2

Youth Support Integral to Integrated Services Focus on vulnerable young people (and up to 25 for young people with additional needs) and families Targeted work in schools and post 16 with young people at risk of not progressing

Local Authority Responsibilities Encouraging, enabling or assisting young people’s participation in education, training or work Tracking young people’s participation in order to identify those who need support utilising the local Client Caseload Information System (CCIS) Completing learning difficulty assessments (under section 139a of the Education and Skills Act 2008) for those young people with a learning difficulty and/or disability up to the age of 25

County Integrated Youth Support Team

Youth Support TheSource website – for all young people Future4me – Suffolk Post 16 course website Curriculum support and CPD opportunities MIS data collection and analysis Working in close collaboration with Backing Young Suffolk

Contact details Haverhill, Bury St Edmunds and Forest Heath ISM - Steve Watts ITM - Julie Coffield Contact: Caxton House, 43 St Andrews Street South, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3PH, Thurston/ High Suffolk/Stowmarket/Stowupland ISM - Joy InametiITM - Kim Hood Contact: Stevens House, 17 Station Road West Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 5UA, Ipswich North & East ISM - Brenda McInerney ITM - Jo Bigger Contact: 17 Tower Street, Ipswich, IP1 3BE, Felixstowe/ Woodbridge/Leiston ISM - Jacci SpashettITM - Radu Groza Contact: 108 Queens Road, Felixstowe, IP11 7PG, Lowestoft/ Waveney ISM - Clare BesleyITM - Caren Elvine Contact: Adrian House, Alexandra Road, Lowestoft, NR32 1PL, Ipswich South & West ISM - Clare Slater-RobinsITM - Sorrell Grove Contact: The Infobar, Fore Street, Ipswich, IP4 1JL, South Suffolk & Sudbury ISM - Anita Farrant ITM - Sallie Bloomfield Contact: Belle Vue House Newton Road Sudbury CO10 2RG,

Allan Cadzow Assistant Director - Integrated Service Delivery Pauline Henry County Youth Support Manager Marisa Batson Information Support and Development Manager

11 – 19 Youth Support