Young People's Services

Range of activities:

Personal & Social Education opportunities.
Youth activities which are enjoyable and fun.
Safe warm premises to meet and associate.
Information, advice, guidance and counselling services.
Specialist provision for outdoor activities, outdoor education, sports, international experiences.

Beneficiaries of the service:

• The young people of Rotherham
• The Service target age range is 13-19 year olds within a wider target group of 11 -25 year olds
• Young people in particular need
• Groups working with young people

Outcomes sought for beneficiaries:

• Increased achievement
• New Learning
• Specific accreditation of learning
• Increase in self-esteem
• Development of new Skills/Understanding/Knowledge
• Development of new patterns of behaviour
• Development of new attitudes / values

Levels of service provision:

The Service provides learning opportunities to young people in 40 different work sites and through 88 different projects throughout the Borough.

These include:
1 x Central Service base at Rotherham International Centre
38 x youth centres/clubs.
4 x detached youth work teams.
40 x specialist projects.
1 x mobile resource.
1 x project offering specialist information, advice counselling and support.
1 x Water based Outdoor Activities Centre,
1 x Outdoor Education Centre at Londendale
1 x Residential Centre at Filey

Links with other Plans:

Local Authority Plans

This plan clearly builds upon, and is a way of delivering, the RMBC Corporate Plan and both the Programme Area Plan and the Culture Leisure and Lifelong Learning Plan. We have used the new objectives from the borough Preventative Strategy (drawn from 'Every Child Matters') as the template for this plan and have carefully considered how Young People's Services implements the wider council agenda.

Connexions

Local youth service plans need to fit in with the overall Connexions business plan and be agreed with the Connexions Partnership.

Borough wide plans and strategies

The Service is an integral part of several borough-wide plans and strategies. The Service is represented on the groups writing these plans and is committed to delivering aspects of the plans. Key examples of these are:

Crime and Disorder Strategy
Community Strategy
Rotherham Teenage Pregnancy Strategy
Connexions Borough Plan and CSY Business Plan

Finance:

Base Budget of £2,165,823.
External funding of approximately £2,000,000

Resources:

333 Staff (145 FTE)
Mobile resource
38 buildings owned/leased/rented
Training & issue based resources

Service Developments:

• Development of Children and Young People's Services
• Development of the Connexions Service, Connexions contact and role of Personal Advisers
• Development of the Voice and Influence agenda across the borough
• Delivery of the Transforming Youth Work plan
• Development of partnership working and the voice of the voluntary youth sector in Rotherham
• Development of new MI system for Service

Young Peoples Services Performance Criteria 2004/2005