Portsmouth City

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Portsmouth City
Scrutiny Panel Presentation 22nd September 2006
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Position

• Culture Economy and Community Safety
• Community Services - includes Play Service
  Community Centres
• Youth Service Strategic links
  Children, Families and Learning Directorate
  
• Children and Young Peoples Single Plan
• Priority 8
• Youth Involvement Strategy
• Joint Commissioning Group Executive Member
• Links to Youth Crime Adolescent Health incl.
  Teenage Parents
• Community Involvement Portsmouth 8 Response
  Group

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Comparator

• As a comparator to Portsmouth Telford and Wrekin
  Council is an example of similarities and
  differences Childrens Planning Structure
• Local Strategic Partnership
• Agency Executive Partnership
• Boards
• Children Young Peoples
• Strategic Partnership Board
• Joint Y.People
• Commissioning Childrens Chairs
  Co-coordinating Group Childrens
• Unit Forum
• Health Enjoying Economic Staying
  Safe Positive
• Early Years Achieving Well-Being
  Contributions
• Five local school and community Collaborative
  Forum with
• Cluster Change for Children Boards The
  Voluntary Independent Sector
• will support the outcome subgroups
• and the CYPSPB
• Tackling Young Peoples Needs

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Youth Population
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Youth Population
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OFSTED

• July 04 Ofsted judged
• Portsmouth City Council provides a satisfactory
  Youth Service, and provides satisfactory value
  for money.
• Actions required
• Improve the quality of operational management
• Place more focus on learning outcomes for young
  people
• Ensure that youth work is rigorously planned and
  evaluated in partnership
• with young people
• Involve young people more in decision making
  throughout the Service
• Take action to promote good race relations
• Improve partnerships with Connexions and the
  Voluntary Sector

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Ofsted Actions

• Improve the quality of operational management
• Complete a full assessment of operational
  management
• Following the completion of the above implement
  key changes within the Youth Service Structure
  making any necessary structural changes
• Undertake a systematic assessment of young
  peoples needs
• Improve data collection and analysis ensuring
  knowledge of local communities is shared
• Ensure implementation of the curriculum framework
  and other recently introduced policies are
  effectively managed and monitored
• Revision of the curriculum document to provide
  more detail and ensure it is supported by
  guidance

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Ofsted Actions

• Place more focus on learning outcomes for young
  people
• Continue to develop and strengthen young peoples
  accreditation of learning across all projects
• Ensure that projects through the annual planning,
  evaluation and monitoring processes both plan for
  and identify key learning outcomes for young
  people within all activities and programmes
  offered to young people
• Involve young people more in decision making
  throughout the Service
• Develop all appropriate decision-making
  procedures and processes to effectively involve
  young people in key decisions that effect both
  the provision and quality of delivery of youth
  work practice
• Ensure that youth work is rigorously planned and
  evaluated in partnership with young people
• Develop a structure for the appropriate
  involvement of young people within the planning
  and evaluation of youth work ensuring that they
  are fully involved in negotiating targets for
  themselves and in evaluating their experiences
• Ensure young peoples attitudes are challenged
  whenever necessary
• Further develop procedures for the observation of
  youth work

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Ofsted Actions

• Improve partnerships with Connexions and the
  Voluntary Sector
• Develop a Service-wide partnership with the
  Connexions Service identifying key linkages of
  practice including information sharing protocols
  and potential joint initiatives
• Further develop key links with the voluntary
  sector identifying key partnerships to both
  enhance and progress youth provision
• Take action to promote good race relations
• Complete assessment of needs and accessibility
• Develop and offer wider range of services and
  partnerships with more targeted work being
  completed
• Promote racial awareness programmes within all
  provision to young people and complete planned
  commonwealth exchange to the island of Dominica
• Ofsted Action Plan Supporting Paper March 06

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Effectiveness

• Current Performance
• Satisfaction Survey 2005 Annual Survey
• The Transforming Youth Work Standards require a
  85 satisfaction rating by young people of the
  service that they use. The satisfaction level
  for Portsmouth is set at a score of 7/10 or above
• The Overall satisfaction rating of 91.5 was
  achieved in the last annual survey
• Attendance
• 47,882 11-25yrs 40,156 13-19yrs
• Membership
• 4415 individuals accessed the service
• BME Contact
• Approximately 3 against Portsmouth Population of
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• BVPI 221a/b 05-06 return
• 221a - Recorded outcomes 974 Target 06/07-1200
  
• 221b Accreditation 112 Target 06/07-200
• Credit where its due

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BVPI 221a Accredited Outcomes 60 of
Participants
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BVPI 221b Accredited Outcomes 30 of
Participants
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Contact rate
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Satisfaction (Target 85)
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Spend Per Head (Target 100)
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Robust Service Measurement

• Hard measurement Quantities
• Youth Base statistics
• Finances
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Three Dimensions of Service Measurement

• Tangible Evidence
• Videos
• Photos
• Reports
• Diaries
• Session notes

• Soft Outcomes
• Anecdotal
• Behaviours
• Verbal
• Non Verbal