Practice Sharing

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published the fourth edition of Youth Tracker, the quarterly newsletter looking at how Britain's young people are faring in the recession, and what organisations can do to support them. This edition of Youth Tracker focuses on what can be done to put young people having to decide on their next steps in life at the forefront of education and skills policy.

http://www.ippr.org.uk/members/download.asp?f=/ecomm/files/youth%20tracker%20issue%204.pdf&a=skip (Opens in new window)

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has published The Equality Act - What's new for employers? It provides a summary of how the law will change in October when the Equality Act comes into force.

www.acas.org.uk/equalityact

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Re-offending in troubled and aggressive young people can be significantly cut using a pioneering new mental health approach known as Multisystemic Therapy, a UK conference was told this week. Reporting on the initial findings of the first UK evaluation pilot, researchers found in families with multiple problems that the use of Multisystemic Therapy reduced the risk of re-offending, particularly among boys.

http://www.chimat.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=93033&src=LD (Opens in new window)

This evaluation of extended services aims to measure how successful schools have been in offering a range of services, whether services meet the needs of users, how successful extended services have been in improving outcomes and raising standards of achievement, other key outcomes and benefits of the programme, and the long-term benefits and cost-effectiveness of extended services.

http://www.chimat.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=94112&src=KU (Opens in new window)

Disabled Children's Access to Childcare: Process evaluation of participation and workforce development activity in the Disabled Children's Access to Childcare pilots.

This report focuses on the findings of the disabled children's access to childcare process evaluation with the aim of enabling replication and adaptation of common and successful practice. It focuses on parent participation and workforce development.

http://www.chimat.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=94114&src=KU (Opens in New Window)

NCVYS members Fairbridge have published Back from the Brink: How Fairbridge transforms the lives of disadvantaged young people. The report brings together the results of three evaluative studies of Fairbridge's work over ten years and is based on a sample of 3200 individuals. It provides detailed evidence about what works for disadvantaged young people and demonstrates the empirical value of development work with young people.

http://www.fairbridge.org.uk/content_files/files/fb_back_from_the_brink_final_report_1006.pdf (Opens in New Window)

NCVYS will be bringing together each month the funding opportunities mentioned in the bulletin, and the new Funding Update will additionally include local funding opportunities left out of the bulletin for space reasons. Funding updates will continue to appear in the bulletin, but it has been decided that bringing funding news in to one place will be beneficial for members.

http://ncvys.org.uk/funding_update.html

If you're aged between 19 and 24 and have been diagnosed with cancer, you may have a choice about where to receive your care. This website aims to guide you through some of the decisions you’re able to make.

http://www.chimat.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=93935&src=KU   (Opens in new window)

These pages have been created particularly for young people. They have been written by a team of parents, play specialists and doctors, with advice from hundreds of young people aged 4 years and upwards.

http://www.chimat.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=93934&src=KU   (Opens in new window)

Lifelong Learning UK has produced a useful factsheet outlining the new QCF qualifications for assessors and verifiers, which will be available from the 1st September.

Please note, that those holding current assessor qualifications, including the A and D units, will not need to undertake the new qualifications.

To download the pdf factsheet, please visit the Supporting Training Providers web page on the NCVYS web site at http://www.ncvys.org.uk/index.php?page=693

NICHOLA BROWN
Workforce Development Officer
NCVYS
The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services

This article outlines the risk, signs and symptoms of bullying to help clinicians identify and address these children in need.

http://www.chimat.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=93703&src=KU(Opens in new window)

When clarification of the diagnosis takes a long time, this is particularly hard for child health professionals to manage well, and a joint understanding of the process with the family is important. Guidelines for the conduct of the diagnostic consultation are presented.

http://www.chimat.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=93702&src=KU (Opens in new window)

The Department of Health has published initial findings of the first UK evaluation pilot of a new mental health approach known as Multisystemic Therapy for young offenders. The evaluation found the pilot significantly reduced re-offending in troubled and aggressive young people. Multisystemic Therapy involves improving parenting capacity, increasing young people's engagement with education and training, reducing their offending behaviour, and tackling underlying health or mental health problems. The approach has been trialled across 10 sites in England and is supported jointly by the DfE, the Youth Justice Board and Department of Health.
http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=414356&SubjectId=2 (Opens in new window)

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15 June 2010


Dear Colleague

We know you have an ongoing interest in developments regarding the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS),
the work of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) and the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB).  We therefore thought it was important to write to you today so that you are among the first to be updated with some important  news about the Scheme.

Volunteering charity CSV and Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform, have launched a new scheme of grandparent-style mentors to help troubled teenagers avoid turning to crime and designed to improve their prospects in life. Trained and screened senior volunteer mentors will be matched with young individuals aged between 14-19 particularly those not in education, employment or training.
http://www.csv.org.uk/(opens in new window)

The Department for Education has written to directors of children's services on next steps for ContactPoint, the government database for under 18s, and guidance on interim operations. The Government has made clear its intention to end ContactPoint as soon as is practicable. In the meantime, while ContactPoint remains in use, its operations will be scaled down.
http://www.education.gov.uk (PDF opens in new window)

Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has announced that the extension of the Young Person's Guarantee will not take place. The guarantee, which was first announced in last year's Budget, promises a job or training to every 18- to 24-year-old who has been out of work for six months or more. It was due to be extended into 2011/12 at a cost of £450m. Also included in the list of projects to be scrapped is the roll-out of the £290m Future Jobs Fund.
http://nds.coi.gov.uk(Word document - opens in new window)

The Cabinet Office has unveiled its structural reform plan, which lays out a number of goals for supporting third sector organisations, including inviting Parliament to create a select committee for civil society, which is expected to be in place by November. It also says the planned Big Society Bank, which will provide capital for third sector organisations using money from dormant bank accounts, will start giving out funds by April.
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/414879/srp-cabinet-office.pdf (opens in new window)

Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that registration with the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) will be halted to allow the government to ‘remodel the scheme back to proportionate, common sense levels'. Voluntary registration with the VBS for new employees and those working or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults was due to start on 26 July 2010.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ (opens in new window)

Further details can be found in a letter from the Independent Safeguarding Authority.
http://www.navca.org.uk/ (Word document download - opens in new window)