Children and Young Peoples Unit Mayors Office

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Children and Young Peoples UnitMayors Office
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Rikki Garcia

• Programme Manager - CYPU
• GLA

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• CYPU Key Areas
• Small team
• Policy support to the Mayor
• Supporting the delivery of programmes
• Coordination and Communication across GLA group
  and external partners
• Capital Child Newsletter
• Youth Involvement and the Peer Outreach Team
• Mayors Youth Offer
• Supporting and improving best practice
• Time For Action
• Mayors Fund for London

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• Time For Action
• 6 key areas
• Daedalus supporting young people in custody
  for the first time
• Brodie keeping young people in education
• Mayors Scholars, Academies and Apprentices
• Titan developing character and responsibility
• Sport and Music for all
• Oracle what works?
• Consultation open until the 16th December

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• Mayors Youth Offer
• Total London youth Offer is 79million - 20
  million from the LDA.
• 14 million spread amongst all 33 Boroughs.
• 5 million allocated to Young Londoners Fund.
• Practical evaluation framework and toolkit
  currently developed and being piloted.
• Series of good practice sharing seminars being
  developed around issues relevant to delivery
  organisations.

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• Young Londoners Fund (YLF)
• 5million total pot specifically for voluntary
  sector organisations.
• 2 broad themes for the YLF.
• Theme 1 is intended to engage disadvantaged
  young people at risk of exclusion through
  educational and skills development and positive
  activities opportunities.
• Theme 2 is intended to develop the confidence
  and skills of young people and providing
  preventative support to reduce first time
  entrants to the criminal justice system.

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• YLF Funded Projects
• Eco-Actif Services CIC - Mentoring
• Highgate Newtown Community Centre Sports and
  business
• Be Totally You Conflict resolution
• Brent Irish Advisory Service Supporting young
  travellers
• Student Action for Refugees Supporting young
  refugees
• Hi8us South Ltd Media/theatre
• Immediate Theatre Estate based theatre
• Dazu Supporting young carers and young people
  with disabilities
• Artefacts Edutainment Arts/culture
• Germination Ltd CIC Photography and journalism
• Paddington Arts Arts/media
• Peabody Trust Sports and football
• London Youth Community sports
• Groundwork London - Environmental
• BeatBullying Ltd - Sports
• Catch 22 (Rainer) Mentoring and one to one
  support

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• Outcomes
• The overall intention of the fund is to ensure
  that those young people who are most in need
  receive the best possible support they can.
• The programme is expected to encourage boroughs
  to target more effectively and reduce social
  exclusion in the wider sense.
• Target groups of young people include those
  not engaging in education or at risk of
  exclusion, at risk of or already engaging in
  criminal behaviour, with disabilities, in care or
  leaving care, from BAME groups.
• The total number of young people being reached
  will vary according to borough and project, but
  it is expected to increase the reach of youth
  services and improve targeted work.
• Evaluation framework will look beyond the
  numbers.

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• Youth Involvement

• Goes beyond consultation as consultation can
  operate in a vacuum.
• Consultation has no requirement to do anything
  with the information gathered decision makers
  might not act on the views of the people.
• Young people should share decisions with adults.
• Young people can be involved in all decisions
  that affect them
• It is not a quick or one off process
• Representation can be a red herring.
• There is no electoral register for young people.
• Adult politicians dont represent every single
  person.
• Young people can be fairer and less weighed down
  by history but can also be more dogmatic and
  ill-informed.
• Young people are the experts on themselves no
  one else.

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• Usual Suspects

• Myths
• Only articulate, middle class kids get involved
  in decision making not true.
• Young people wont sit through a boring meeting
  not true.
• Young people will make bad decisions
• Facts
• Any young person can get involved the support
  they receive from youth workers, youth
  participation workers etc are what encourages the
  ability to articulate.
• Confidence is built slowly.
• Participation needs consistent and well planned
  support.

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• What can we do?

• Support for individuals
• Consultation and policy development
• Good practice sharing
• Practice Observation Programme
• Linking people and groups together

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For more informationrikki.garcia_at_london.gov.uk
Time for Action consultationwww.london.gov.uk/ma
yor/crime/timeforaction/Mayors
Fundwww.mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk/
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