Agenda item

a)                 Joint Report of Assistant Chief Executive and Corporate Director of Children and Young People’s Services;

b)                 Presentation by Paul McGinnety, Commissioning Manager, CYPS.

The Committee considered a joint report of the Assistant Chief Executive and Corporate Director of Children and Young People’s Services regarding the ‘Places to Go Things to Do’ strategy and received a presentation from Paul McGinnety, Commissioning Manager, Children and Young People’s Services(for report and copies of slides see file of Minutes).

The Places to go Things to do strategy was approved by Cabinet in December 2009.  Although there was an abundance of activities there were barriers preventing children, young people and families from accessing activities.  One of the barriers was marketing of places to go things to do.

The presentation highlighted what work had been done to help reduce barriers to accessing services and explained the two phased approach which had been adopted and provided an update on significant developments of the marketing of Places to go Things to do.  Phase One involved marketing and promotion linked to the Olympics and school summer holidays, while Phase Two involved the production of a services for youth strategy.

The draft of the Strategy for Youth would be designed to:

• Protect and develop local services
• Target specific local and national agendas
• Work with local communities, AAP’s and the One Point service to create local community partnerships to involve all sectors
• Suggest a mixed economy of funding and service delivery

Councillor Stradling informed the Committee that Horden had a local community partnership but he was unaware of the piece of work being undertaken at Phase Two.  The Commissioning Manager, Children and Young People’s Services replied that Phase Two had not yet commenced.  Councillor Stradling stressed the need to keep activities and information relevant to localities.

Councillor Armstrong informed the Commissioning Manager, Children and Young People’s Services that it was very important to work closely with AAP’s as they were both a possible source of funding and also had a good knowledge of local areas.

Resolved:

That the report and presentation be noted and that the Strategy be re-visited once Phase Two was operational.