1. Fiona Phur Voluntary & Community Sector Specialist POSITIVE FOR YOUTH – The Implications for the Voluntary & Community Sector 4 October 2012

2. The RYWU History Projects Networks Involvement – membership Forthcoming events - conference

3. Current Context Radical policy reforms; education, health and welfare Structural reforms: local government, youth justice etc Positive for Youth Policy that affect the operating environment:  Early intervention  Youth unemployment  Localism  Benefits reviews

4. Positive for Youth Reflects the Government’s Big Society agenda Shared vision of support to young people Aims to develop stronger local communities and families Promotes youth voice Retains duty on local authorities for sufficient provision Recognition of early intervention VCSE providers to assume more responsibility for providing services through local commissioning

5. Positive for Youth – Summary of commitments Empowering young people Parenting support Raising participation age in education Participate in work via Youth Contract Promoting Apprenticeships Supporting local authority commissioners

6. Positive for Youth – Summary of Commitments Youth Voice MyPlace NCS Cadet forces in schools Public sector investment Social finance

8. Using the Outcomes Framework Findings of Education Select Committee 2010 Need to demonstrate the difference that services for young people make Need to articulate the value that services for young people produce for young people and for society more broadly The Outcomes Framework is designed to support understanding and measurement of the connections between intrinsic personal and social development outcomes and longer-term extrinsic outcomes A model of seven interlinked clusters of social and emotional capabilities Supported by a strong evidence base demonstrating the links to longer-term outcomes A matrix of available tools to measure these capabilities

9. 7 clusters of capabilities

10. Stages in using the framework

11. Useful contacts www.learning-southwest.org.uk ( go to Regional Youth Work pages) www.learning-southwest.org.uk http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/comm unityrights/righttochallenge/ ( for new rights under Localism Act 2011) http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/comm unityrights/righttochallenge/ https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderin gDownload/DFE-00198-2011.pdf ( Positive for Youth Executive Summary) https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderin gDownload/DFE-00198-2011.pdf http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/big-society (Cabinet Office - look out for TUPE consultation) http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/big-society http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/tcomes _Framework_draft_final_for_publication_3.pdf http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/tcomes _Framework_draft_final_for_publication_3.pdf

12. Visit our web-site at www.learning-southwest.org.uk