Young London Matters Working in partnership to Improve Outcomes for Children and Young People in Lon

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Young London Matters Working in partnership to
Improve Outcomes for Children and Young People
in London
Jennifer IzekorDirector for Children and
Learners Children and Learners
DivisionGovernment Office for London
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Young London Matters Making a difference in
London

• Brings together professionals, young people and
  parents in order to drive improvements, share
  excellent practice and develop support materials
  across children and young people services and
  sectors
• Improves knowledge and data on childrens
  services and needs in London
• Facilitates cross-borough collaborations
• to meet challenges of the
• Every Child Matters Agenda

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Why Young London Matters?

• A London where all children
• and young people get the
• best opportunities and support to enable them to
  achieve
• their full potential in life.

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Ambitious Goals - How Young London Matters
Achieves

• Strand 2 - Reducing unplanned teenage
  conceptions and promoting young peoples sexual
  health and sexual health knowledge
• and awareness
• Promoting innovation
• Engaging wide of stakeholders
• Levering in additional resources
• Building capacity

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The First Sex and Relationship Core Curriculum
Resource for London

• Moving forward in Partnership
• The DoH National Support Team
• The DCSF Teenage Pregnancy Unit
• Local Authorities
• The NCB Sex Education Forum
• The PSHE Association
• UK Youth Parliaments Campaign
• Are you getting it?

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A new start for SRE in schools

• By September 2010 Schools should provide - and
  publish their plans for - Personal, Social and
  Health Education (PSHE) including
• - Sex and Relationships
• - Health, including sexual health
• - Understanding Drugs and Alcohol
• - Careers and Finance
• - Safety

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What does this means for Schools?

• Planning and developing SRE lessons that meet
  the needs of diverse groups of young people
• Clarity around the values framework
• Engaging young people, parents and carers in
  developing and delivering lessons
• Taking a broad approach
• Learning from what works
• Supporting professional development to increase
  skills, leadership confidence
• among those delivering SRE
• Investing in resources and
• expertise

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What does this mean for local authorities/communit
ies?

• Supporting schools and other providers to engage
  with faith and community groups in delivering
  robust SRE
• Links to parenting and family support
• Partnerships that support schools and clusters to
  deliver innovative solutions
• Key role in setting values framework
• Embrace SRE - Its everyone's responsibility!!! -
• Find Senior champions?
• Share what works
• Support young people to lead the way in boroughs
  and
• encourage young people to make decisions
• Promote positive role models
• Clear signposting!!!!!!

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How will the new resource for London help?

• A free on-line resource and YLM booklet
• Supports Schools, teachers and governors across
  London to prepare in advance of PSHE and SRE
  becoming statutory in 2010
• A flexible resource from which individual
  sections can be used to support work already
  taking place
• - A consistent, evidence-based approach to the
  delivery
• of SRE, supporting schools to build on what
  is
• already being delivered and benefit from
• best practice. and

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A cohesive programme of study From Foundation to
Year 11
Schemes of work and practical tools - for
planning lessons from Foundation Stage to key
Stage 4