Positive Activities for Young People Report

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Positive Activities for Young

People

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Positive Activities for Young People Evaluation of April 2011-March 2012

For several years North Somerset Council has provided funding for the purposes of providing targeted activities for young people during school holidays. It is intended that these activities will encourage community cohesion as well as reduce offending and anti-social behaviour by young people as well as promote school performance and attendance. The programmes have the added benefit of enabling professionals to

unobtrusively monitor the welfare of vulnerable young people at the same time as providing them with new life experiences which they may not otherwise be able to access, thus helping young people to achieve the five outcomes of Every Child Matters.

In order to qualify for funding, partner agencies and other organisations are invited to submit bids to the multi-agency PAYP panel. These bids must demonstrate how their planned programme will meet the PAYP criteria. In 2011, as in previous years, the criteria are that projects must:

• Include coverage of a holiday period and provide exit/support strategies for young people engaging in the programme(s).

• Reduce the risk of young people offending or engaging in anti-social behaviour.

• Improve engagement/attendance in ETE provision.

• Encourage community cohesion and citizenship.

• Address the issues that contribute to social exclusion and isolation (e.g. substance misuse, social skills, emotional literacy).

• Provide opportunities for young people to practice and develop life skills.

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Headline Information

Positive Activities for Young People funding has provided programmes across the financial year, with the majority of programmes being organised during the Summer school holiday.

Programmes funded by PAYP monies in 2011-12 have reached 680 young people to date, with 603 young people accessing activities during the 2011 Summer holiday.

To date, PAYP received 25 bids for funding this year, with 23 bids being offered partial or full funding by the Panel. There are likely to be at least 2 further requests for funding in the near future.

Of the 20 bids that requested PAYP funding for use over the Summer period, the panel agreed to:

• Fully fund 14 bids. • Partially fund 4 bids.

• Not fund 2 bids as they did not meet the PAYP criteria.

During the Summer of 2011, PAYP funding aided the delivery of 171_group

programmes which delivered:

• approximately 27694 contact hours with young people2_.

• at an estimated cost to the Council of £30,0003_._{To date,} exclusive of staff time committed to delivering the programmes Since September 2011, PAYP has agreed to partially or fully funded a further 5 programmes4_{(with funding agreed for one of the five}

programmes which will run in April 2012). To date, these programmes have offered a further:

• _{1253 contact hours with young people} • at an estimated cost to the fund of £2,215

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One programme did not proceed due to issues which arose after the panel had made their decision.

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See Appendix A1, A2 and A3 for Data Analysis and Appendix E Record of Expenditure

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See Appendix A1, A2 and A3 for Data Analysis and Appendix E Record of Expenditure

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In total, the number of additional hours of support offered to young people as a result of PAYP exceeds 28,900, at an estimated cost to the Council of £30,049.

PAYP has again been a good example of inter-agency working with many of the bids submitted organised by agencies working in partnership, an

example of this is the Connexions/YOS/BIP Overnight Bivvy. Partners involved in delivering PAYP include:

• North Somerset Youth Offending and

Prevention Service (YOS)

• Behaviour Improvement Programme (BIP)

• Avon and Somerset Constabulary

• Weston East Youth Projects

• Weston Youth Centre

• Weston Town Centre Project

• Long Ashton Youth Club

• COSMIC (Children of Substance Misusing

Parents)

• Connexions

• Barnardos

• The Resource Service

• XTND (Extended Schools)

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Engagement in programmes offered during Summer 2011

Each agency used their own systems to identify young people who met their referral criteria and would benefit from the activities running over the Summer. These methods ranged from a ‘Drop In’ for programmes which had been advertised locally (such as Long Ashton Youth Centre’s programme) to programmes that were targeted to a specific group of young people (YOS PAYP programme).

Based on information received to date 603 young people attended at least one session over the Summer holiday which received funding from PAYP. The majority of these young people attended on multiple days. Measures were taken by the PAYP panel to ensure that funding was not given to different agencies to provide support to the same young people, however we are unable to, using the information provided, to rule this out as a possibility.

For programmes where we were able to calculate a percentage figure for those who attended compared to those who were invited, these figures ranged from 56%5_{to 100%}6_{. For detailed information about each}

programme which includes numbers of young people who attended or the percentage attended please see Appendix C.

The total number of activity hours offered during Summer PAYP illustrates how PAYP continues to benefit young people in North Somerset. Whilst the number of hours offered fell slightly7_{to 717}

hours, the total number of contact hours that were delivered was higher than in previous years at c27,694 hours. This is due to a 46.4% increase in the number of young people accessing PAYP funded projects in the Summer of 20118_.

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Connexions/YOS/BIP Overnight Residential – this was a targeted programme and the attendance was affected by some of those due to attend receiving a custodial sentence shortly before the date of the activity.

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A number of programmes had 100% attendance and some reported that they were oversubscribed.

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Compared to 2010 PAYP figures

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Partnership Working

There is ample evidence that PAYP programmes run in the 2011-12 financial year were a good example of partnership working, both with agencies within North Somerset Council and with our partners.

One example of this was the BIP Transitions Group for Worle Community School which had the goal of improving the school attendance of young people moving from primary school to Worle Community School. This programme was staffed by the BIP MAPS team, Worle Community School and XTND. Other agencies involved in partnership working were the local Community Police teams and Clevedon Community School for a programme designed to reduce anti-social behaviour.

The BIP Forest School programme aimed to provide opportunities for young people who ‘dropped in’ to the (non-PAYP funded) SWAN Summer Lunch Club in Weston-Super-Mare’s South Ward.

The multi-agency PAYP panel also provided managers with the opportunity to monitor programmes being delivered, and to ensure that funding was available to projects that would reach young people across the whole of North Somerset.

It is the opinion of the report author that should PAYP funding be agreed for 2012-13, that it is likely to provide further opportunities for a multi-agency delivery of targeted programmes to reduce offending and anti-social behaviour; and promote school performance and attendance. Should PAYP continue, it is anticipated that more joint bids will be

needed in order to fully staff activities, and that there will be more bids from voluntary agencies. Should this not happen then it will reduce the opportunities for young people to learn and develop from these activities.

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Monitoring PAYP Objectives

Each of the 21 programmes funded by PAYP has returned monitoring information to provide evidence of the success of their programme. This information is in turn used to complete this report.

Whilst each programme had its own criteria for identifying young people in need of support, individual programmes were required to provide information evidencing how they met the PAYP criteria. Consideration was also given as to how young people engaging in their activities were given the opportunity to meet the objectives set by Every Child Matters. Programmes were also asked to provide feedback from service users engaging in their programmes.

Reduce the risk of targeted young people engaging in offending or anti-social behaviour.

As one of the PAYP criteria, it was expected that programmes would target young people who are at risk of offending and anti-social behaviour (ASB). Programmes were delivered on the basis that not only would they prevent offending and ASB by keeping young people occupied at a time when there is a high risk of young people offending but that they would also promote citizenship and pro-social behaviour to young people

reducing the risk of future harm.

The YOS programmes, actively worked with young people who were known to have committed ASB and offending behaviour, however the work of other programmes also reduced the risk of this behaviour by young people. Examples of these programmes are Clevedon Youth Provision’s project which gave young people the opportunity to discuss ASB with their local Police Community Support Officers and Weston Youth Project’s animation sessions which used that medium to explore the impact of ASB.

The programmes may also have reduced the perception that young people are engaging in ASB.

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Improving attendance and engagement in ETE provision.

Improving a young person’s self-esteem; fuelling a sense of achievement and giving them encouragement for the future helps to increase

attendance at school, particularly when the young person is worried about making the transition from primary to secondary school. Consequently this was a focus of several PAYP funded programmes across North Somerset this summer.

Difficulties in achieving successful transitions was addressed directly through several BIP-led programmes which targeted young people who had poor attendance in primary school, and working with these young people to reduce their fears around attending secondary school.

It was also a factor in several other programmes which included projects run by the Youth Service. An example was given of a young person who had passed school age, who was not in education, training or employment, being encouraged to attend the Princes Trust (Weston Town Centre Youth Project).

Most of the programmes this year worked around providing young people with a sense of achievement and improving their self-esteem. Some schools (for instance Clevedon School) were also involved in programme delivery.

Some of the programmes looked at promoting education to young people who were not in education, employment or training (NEET). The feedback from the Resource Service showed that two thirds of the young people who were NEET at the time of the Summer Programme are now in ETE (10 out of 15). The YOS/Connexions/BIP Overnight Bivvy actively encouraged young people to attend education.

Addressing the issues that contribute to social exclusion and isolation; and promote inclusion.

A number of programmes delivered included sessions that would help to increase a sense of citizenship within young people as well as completing direct work around issues such as substance misuse which can contribute to social exclusion. All of the programmes were designed to promote

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inclusion, through, for example, the reduction of anti-social behaviour and by encouraging young people to feel part of their communities.

The YOS programme, which worked in conjunction with the Substance Advice Service (SAS) delivered sessions around substance misuse to all young people over the age of 12 who participated in the programme. This learning was reinforced throughout the rest of the sessions.

SAS was also involved in other programmes across North Somerset, supporting programmes such as those run by the Resource Service and Clevedon Youth Provision.

The COSMIC residential was targeted at young people whose parents misuse substances. It was planned that this residential, in giving young people positive role models and in teaching other ways to manage difficult and uncomfortable emotions, would divert vulnerable young people from substance abuse.

There has been a slight increase in young people engaging with PAYP who are not attending mainstream school, including young people who are considered NEET.

Long Ashton Youth Club looked to integrate two groups of young people who “historically haven’t always got on.” The two trips that were

arranged incorporated young people from each group and were successful. Weston Youth Centre’s programme looked to address some issues of

social exclusion by providing an “all inclusive” environment that built on prior relationships with young people and offered opportunities to try something new.

Programmes being offered free of charge ensured that young people who would ordinarily be unable to participate due to family financial

circumstances had equality of access with young people from more affluent families. All of which helped to promote young people’s self-esteem and their sense of belonging within a community.

Programmes ran across North Somerset ensuring that young people living in rural areas would also have been able to access support.

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Providing opportunities for young people to practice and develop lifeskills

Programmes across North Somerset have offered young people the opportunity to try new activities and learn new skills, boosting self-esteem and encouraging learning through fun.

The Barnados “Funky Monkey” group taught young people about food hygiene and promoted healthy living by encouraging young people to get involved in sports as well as providing the opportunity for them to try a different sport, fencing.

The Resource Services Ready for Employment sessions taught young people about CVs, interview and communication skills to prepare them for the future. Their ‘Ready, Steady, Cook” drop in gave young people the opportunity to learn about healthy eating, food hygiene and safety in the kitchen.

Other groups, such as Weston Town Centre Youth Project’s group, used team building and completed work to address issues of discrimination and helped young people to build positive relationships with others.

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Outcomes for Young People

Through successfully delivering against the PAYP criteria, it is evident that projects funded by PAYP have also effectively delivered against the five shared outcomes in the North Somerset Children and Families

Partnership Plan 2011-14. Be Healthy

With work being completed around sexual health and substance misuse the YOS Summer activity programme looked at ensuring young people were mindful of their health.

Other programmes also looked at substance misuse (e.g. COSMIC). Healthy eating was also looked at with projects such as Clevedon Youth Project and Barnardo’s “Funky Monkey” group.

Stay Safe

In addressing Anti-Social Behaviour and offending, programmes worked with young people to improve their personal safety and that of other members of the community.

One example of this was the targeted ‘knife crime’ session run as part of the YOS programme. This session educated young people about the risks of carrying knives in the community.

Other examples include addressing harm reduction over young people’s substance misuse and educating young people about their vulnerability whilst under the influence of substances.

Enjoy and Achieve

The feedback collected from the individual projects showed that all of the young people both enjoyed the sessions they attended and valued their new experiences. Being offered the opportunity to do something new strengthened their sense of achievement and their self-esteem,

increasing the likelihood that they would try something new in the future. Young people were given the opportunity to work towards awards during some of the Summer PAYP programme. In Weston East they were given

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the opportunity to work towards the North Somerset Award (if they completed 10 hours of activities) and Weston Youth Centre’s programme gave young people the opportunity to work towards their Duke of

Edinburgh Bronze Award. Make a Positive Contribution

Many of the programmes looked to improve young people’s sense of social responsibility by tackling issues such as anti-social behaviour, substance misuse and offending. Different programmes delivered this support in different ways, ranging from providing positive role models to delivering sessions directly addressing these topics (see above).

Young people had other opportunities to make a positive contribution. One example is Weston East Youth Project’s Summer Activity programme gave young people the opportunity to volunteer to support other young people with additional needs in order to ensure that everyone could take part in these activities.

Economic Wellbeing

Encouraging education, training and employment was a strong theme for all of the programmes delivered this year. With BIP’s three transitions programmes addressing potential attendance issues at secondary schools, and other programmes enlisting Connexion’s Advisors to discuss education and employment matters (e.g. Clevedon Youth Provision’s bid), programmes worked with young people to help them to achieve economic wellbeing in the future.

The Resource Service’s ‘Ready for Employment’ programme looked at helping young people to develop life skills which would increase their chances of finding employment.

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Financial Monitoring

As in previous years, bids submitted included the costs of activities proposed. Bids would be considered by the panel and then the PAYP Co-ordinator would feed the outcome back to the bidder, detailing the amount of funding the panel had agreed.

Spending was monitored by the Youth Offending and Prevention Service. There were no requests for PAYP funding to pay for the cost of staffing the programmes.

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Statistical Analysis of Impact of PAYP on Offending and Anti-social Behaviour

The table below shows the number of PAYP programmes that have run during the Summer school holidays across the last three years, and the number of young people who have accessed those programmes.

Summer Number of PAYP

Programmes Run

Number of young people accessing programmes

2009 17 492 2010 21 409 2011 18 603

Table 1: Comparison of number off programmes run during the Summer holidays and number of young people attending by year.

The following statistics9_{looks at the number of young people who were}

involved in PAYP and have offended since their involvement with the programme. This includes the highest tariff outcome the young people have received to date.

2009-2010

Total Disposals

Highest Outcome Tariff (YP)

PAYP Participants 208 208

YRD – Subset of PAYP 42 23

Reprimand - Ditto 4 4 FW - Ditto 6 6 Court - Ditto 20 20 Total Outcome 72 53 % of PAYP with Outcome 34.62% 25.48%

Table 2: Number of young people who have received a criminal justice disposal since attending PAYP over the summer of 2009, and the highest outcome received by that young person.

In the three years since these young people attended PAYP, just over a third of them have received a criminal justice disposal (with 14 receiving more than one). These figures are incomplete, as in the summer of 2009 492 young people received a support through PAYP, it does appear to illustrate that PAYP has successfully diverted over 60% of young people taking part from offending behaviour. Of the 53 young people who have offended over the last three years 33 of them were dealt with by way of

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a pre-court disposal (including 23 who received one or more Youth Restorative Disposals which does not appear on their records).

2010-2011

Total Disposals

YRD –subset of PAYP 28 16

Reprimand - Ditto 10 10 FW - Ditto 2 2 Court - Ditto 13 13 Total Outcome 53 41 % of PAYP with Outcome as at 03/12 13.73% 10.62%

In 2010, 386 young people received support through PAYP over the summer, with under 11% of them going on to receive a criminal justice disposal of some type since their intervention (all but 13 of them being dealt with by way of a pre-court disposal).

2011-12

Total Disposals

YRD – subset of PAYP 41 21

Reprimand – Ditto 8 8 FW - Ditto 9 9 Court - Ditto 17 17 Total Outcome 75 55 % of PAYP with Outcome as at 03/12 18.75% 13.75%

In 2011, 603 young people received a PAYP intervention over the summer. From the returns supplied it has only been possible to identify 400 of these young people. In the seven months since these programmes ran 13.75% of the young people involved have received a disposal by way of the Police or the Court.

The statistics above illustrate that PAYP is making a positive contribution to the reduction of offending by the young people who have received support, however there are a number of other variables which could also be impacting on these figures, including support young people are

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young people who offended after their intervention had offended

previously and also which PAYP programmes they attended in order to see if there are any patterns in the programmes attended by young people who have not offended that could be used to similar affect in future programmes.

Further analysis needs to be completed to determine the impact of PAYP on anti-social behaviour, and whether the impact reduces ASB on days where the young person is attending PAYP or whether the programmes run have a long lasting effect on young people becoming involved in ASB. To complete this analysis information would need to be provided from agencies outside of the YOS.

Finally, one of the goals of PAYP is to encourage young people to attend and achieve through education, training or employment. Further analysis needs to be completed on whether PAYP is having an effect in this area, which would require information from outside of the YOS.

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Highlights and Service User Feedback

PAYP programmes reached more young people this year than they have in previous years, with programmes covering both Weston-Super-Mare and other parts of North Somerset, such as Long Ashton. It has

demonstrated that there is a clear need for these activities in North Somerset.

Another highlight is the number of programmes that were provided by more than one agency, for instance the Transitions Groups which were staffed by people from BIP and also from schools. Given the budget cuts future programmes are more likely to be using this model.

There has been recognition of times when anti-social behaviour has historically been considered high. One example of this is the Clevedon Youth Provisions programme during October half-term which was

designed specifically to work with young people to prevent anti-social and offending behaviour around Halloween.

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Evaluation Feedback from Service Users

“I would cry in my room if it was not on.” – Young person who attended BIP’s Forest School.

“Just wanted to say a really big thank you to you and your team for the brilliant trips organised over the school holidays, J had a great time on all

of them! He seemed to have made some friendship lings and before I fill out the membership form (as he is keen to attend a youth group regularly) received just wanted to get a bit of info as to which youth

group the others attend…” – extract from e-mail sent from a parent regarding the Weston East Summer Programme.

“This is brilliant S can we get some more funding and come again?” – Young person who attended the YOS/Connexions/BIP overnight bivvy.

When young people who were asked about whether the activities organised by Weston Town Centre Youth Project would “reduce the risk of young people engaging in anti-social behaviour” one young person said: “Yes, if they have something to do they won’t have the change to engage

in anti-social behaviour.”

“I made new friends and got to know M and H better. I’m looking forward to coming to youth club in September.” Young person who attended

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APPENDICES

Appendix A1

Data Analysis

North Somerset PAYP Summer 2011 Data analysis (external agencies and YOS)

Number of young people offered a place: 651 Number of young people attended: 603

Attendance percentage: 92.6%

Hours of activities provided: 717 Overall Expenditure: £28,333.9710

(Excluding the costs of Statutory Organisation worker’s time)

Cost per person: £46.99

Cost per activity hour: £39.51

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Appendix A2

Partner Agencies Data Analysis Summer 2011 (External Agencies, excluding YOS):

Number of young people offered a place: 605 Number of young people attended: 561

Attendance percentage: 92.7%

Hours of activities provided: 566

Overall Expenditure: £18,807.41

Cost per person: £33.53

Cost per activity hour: £33.23 (Excluding the costs of Statutory Organisation worker’s time)

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Appendix A3

YOS Summer 2011 PAYP Data Analysis:

Incorporates YOS Summer Activity Programme, Junction 21 mentoring activity and fishing sessions

Number of young people referred: 54 Number of young people offered a place: 54 Number of young people accepted place: 46 Number of young people attended: 42

Attendance percentage: 91%

(Calculated from number accepted and number attended)

Number of activity hours provided: 150

Number of attendance/contact hours: 1354 PAYP Expenditure on activities: £9,526.56*

Cost per person: £226.82*

Cost per activity hour: £63.51*

Cost per attendance/contact hour: £7.04* *Total £’s excludes YOS Staffing Costs which were not paid from PAYP funding

Staffing Costs (NSC staff only): £10,056.24

Overall expenditure: £19,838.51

Additional staffing: Unpaid:

Volunteers x 4 (total hours = 95) Paid:

Police Officers x 2 (total hours = 48.5) Probation Officer x 1 (total hours = 5)

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Appendix B

Record of Schools young people involved with PAYP Summer 2011

School Bournville Primary 2 Windwhistle 2 Crockerne 1 Primary: St Martins 1 Hans Price 37 Broadoak 11 Backwell 15 Clevedon 62 Priory 5 St Bedes Catholic 3 Nailsea 9 Worle 25 St Katherines 9 Churchill 1 Gordano 2 Ravenswood 5 West Haven 6 Secondary: Out of County 6 SAIL 1 Larch Centre 5 EVC 3 The Hub 1 Oakhill 2 EOTAS: EOTAS (unspecified) 6 Permanently Excluded 1 not known (school age) 158

Other:

not known (age

unspecified) 59 (number of not known’s

over school age) 18

Employment 3 NEET 22

Post 16:

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Appendix C

Individual Activity Information Partner Agencies

Behaviour Improvement Programme (BIP) Transitions Groups: Clevedon: Attendance: 75% (9 young people)

Nailsea: Attendance: 89% (8 young people) Worle: Attendance: 95% (20 young people)

BIP’s three transitions groups aimed to engage young people in education. Targeted at young people who had previously had poor attendance whilst at Primary School, the intention of the groups were to support young people to improve confidence, self-esteem and social skills in order to improve attendance at Secondary School.

Each of BIP’s Transitions Groups were successful in obtaining further PAYP funding to enable this work to be reinforced during the October half-term holiday.

BIP/XTND Forest School Group: Attendance: 38 young people

The Forest School was a drop in programme designed to run on three days during the Summer holidays. It’s purpose was to engage with disaffected young people who were identified through their attendance at the SWAN Summer Lunch Club in Weston-Super-Mare’s South Ward. The group gave young people the opportunity to engage in positive activities and promote self-esteem and self-confidence.

Resource Service Summer Activity Programme: Attendance: 100% (19 young people)

The Resource Services summer programme targeted young people who were looked after to help to develop their life and social skills. This programme included the ‘Ready for Employment’ sessions as well as sessions around budgeting and cookery and the ‘Summer Love’ programme which looked at sexual health and risk taking behaviour.

Weston East Locality Summer Programme: Attendance: 97% (111 young people)

Weston East’s programme provided targeted sessions to young people which balanced fun activities with educational sessions around diverse topics such as education options, substance misuse, anti-social behaviour, budgeting and healthy eating. These sessions gave young people the opportunity to build self-esteem and plan for their future with the development of both social and life skills.

Connexions/YOS/BIP Overnight Bivvy and Skiing Activity: Attendance: 56% (5 young people)

This overnight trip and activity session gave a small group of young people who were known to the YOS, BIP or Connexions the opportunity to successfully complete positive activities, giving them a sense of achievement. It also allowed staff the opportunity to provide them with positive role models and discuss topics such as substance misuse and further education.

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(NB – attendance would have been higher however this activity targeted some of the most high risk young people who were ultimately unable to attend the activity due to consequences of their offending behaviour).

Weston Town Centre Youth Project: Attendance: 61% ? (23 young people)

This programme targeted young people aged 13 to 19, many of whom were classed as NEET. The programme focussed on goal achievement and working as a team in order to address offending and anti-social behaviour, promote education and employment and address substance misuse and health issues, using a mix of activities (canoeing, caving, rock climbing and swimming) and ‘wrap around’ sessions looking at young people’s concerns about issues that affect them.

Avon and Somerset Police and Clevedon School Programme: Attendance: 100% (18 young people)

This programme aimed to prevent teenagers committing anti-social behaviour in the area by educating them into a sense of ownership of problems within Clevedon, their

community. Two sessions were completed with young people, providing them with diversionary activities as well as providing young people with the opportunity to take part in team building, developing life skills such as problem solving and improving relationships with the local community police team.

Barnardos “Funky Monkey” Group: Attendance: 157 young people

Barnardos’ “Funky Monkey” group is an established ‘drop in’ youth group running for young people aged 8-12 years in South Weston. The aim of the group is to attract young people who are disengaged and at risk in the community. The group’s bid was to engage with young people who were at risk of offending and anti-social behaviour by providing them with activities, as well as trips that would engage their interest. In providing these activities the programme planned to divert young people away from trouble, as well as encourage them into education and promote healthy lifestyles through inclusive activities which also gave them a sense of community. The activities arranged were selected by members of the group.

COSMIC Residential:

Attendance: 73% (8 young people)

This residential was targeted at young people who are working with COSMIC due to their parent’s engagement in substance misuse. The residential was designed to give young people the opportunity to try something new, and to develop empathy and social skills. It helped young people to build positive friendship groups and self-esteem whilst encouraging young people to attend school and challenging negative stereotypes.

Clevedon Youth Provision:

Clevedon Youth Provision’s programme provided activities for young people, which were designed to be both fun and to give them opportunities to learn new life and social skills. The sessions included discussions with local PCSOs to improve young people’s

understanding of how behaviour affects them and their community, as well as discussions with SAS around substance misuse and Connexions Advisors around

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the use of trips, such as to see the Sand Sculpture exhibit in Weston-Super-Mare.

Some young people had the opportunity to engage in the North Somerset Award. Weston Youth Centre Summer Activity Programme:

Attendance: 68 young people

This drop-in programme was designed to provide positive activities for young people living in Weston-Super-Mare’s South Ward. It gave young people the opportunity to do something fun, whilst also engaging with workers around issues such as education, substance misuse, and future plans. The young people were encouraged to develop independent living skills. Some young people also had the opportunity to complete their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award.

Long Ashton Youth Club: Attendance: 19 young people

Long Ashton Youth Club wished to engage with two groups of young people in Long Ashton in order to promote good relationships between them. It did so by offering two activity sessions where young people could drop-in and have the opportunity to improve their relationships with their peers and use lessons learnt in other areas of their lives. Young people also participated in the organisation of the trips.

BIP/Avon and Somerset Police/XTND: Girls Allowed Group: Attendance: 60% (9 people including 3 parents/carers)

The Girls Allowed Group is an established group in the South Ward of Weston-Super-Mare which is set up to provide opportunities for young women to improve their

relationships with their mothers/female carers. The group requested money to be able to go on a daytrip to Bath to look a the Fashion Museum, which would serve as inspiration for the group to build on their fashion project, which was planned to end with a catwalk show as part of Boomfest.

The Firs Resource Service: Attendance: 0%

This programme was unable to proceed. Programmes post Summer 2011:

Avon and Somerset Police/BIP and Extended Schools Girls Group: Attendance: 0%

This programme was unable to proceed. Clevedon Youth Provision:

This programme engaged young people with a night walk on Halloween, designed to take place specifically at a time where the risk of anti-social behaviour is high.

BIP Transitions Group

This programme revisited the young people who engaged in the Summer Transitions Groups and reinforced lessons learned in order to promote school attendance.

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Individual Activity Information YOS

YISP (10-18yrs) – 42 places Attendance: 93%

Activity Hours: 143 Junior Group (10-12 years)

Sessions included: Beach activity session (with a sports coach), Woodland session and a climbing session. The programme concluded with an Awards session and pool tournament. Middle, Senior and Vulnerable Group (13-17 years)

As with previous years these groups had the opportunity to attend educational sessions in the morning followed by activity sessions in the afternoon.

Sessions delivered were:

Intervention Sessions around: court awareness, weapons, No Worries and substance misuse.

Afternoon Sessions: music making, power kiting and graffiti arts. YOS PAYP Residential (15 places)

Activity hours: 57

Activities: rafting, climbing, abseiling, evening walk, swimming,

Participants from the Middle, Senior and Vulnerable PAYP groups were invited to attend the residential based on their behaviour and attendance over the preceeding weeks. The residential focussed on developing life and social skills and provided an excellent opportunity for direct work with young people, reinforcing their learning over the previous weeks. Team working was key to many of the activities and all were encouraged to participate, building their confidence and self-esteem as they tried new activities in a safe and positive environment.

Mentoring PAYP activity (16 places for young people and their mentors) Attendance: 50%

Activity hours: 8hrs

This session enabled young people being mentored through Junction 21 to spend a day with their mentors, promoting their relationship and giving young people the opportunity to do something new and learn more about the history of Bristol.

Fishing programme: (9 places) Attendance: 89%

A number of days were provided for small groups of young people to experience fishing. All involved were purchased fishing licences and spent the day with an experienced fisherman (YOS Support Worker) learning the basic techniques. This provided a constructive diversionary activity for them, with a positive male role model.

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Post Summer 2011 Programmes

YISP Football Association Junior Football Organisers Award Attendance: 100% (10 young people)

This programme gave young aspiring football coaches the opportunity to train to achieve a recognised football coaching award, promoting their sense of achievement, and

encouraging young people to take up coaching as a career. Girl’s Group Residential

Attendance: (Residential will run April half-term 2012)

The YOS Girl’s Group promoted independence, budgeting and social skills by encouraging members to plan their own residential using the money allocated to them by the YISP panel.

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Appendix D Qualitative Data

Project/Agency Date Number

attended

Number offered

Hours of activities % of attendance on overall programme (No attended/No offered x100) Contact hours (No young people x hours)

Weston East Summer Activity Programme 25th July-14th Aug 111 (88 named) 115 91.5 97% 10156.5

A+S Police and Clevedon School 27th July - 18th Aug 18 18 13 100% 234 Connexions/YOS/BIP 9th, 16th and 17th Aug 5 9 37 56% 185

Weston Youth Centre Summer Activity Programme 2011

24th July -2nd Sept 2011

68 drop in 163 - 3738

Weston Town Centre Youth Project 28th July, 10th, 11th 16th Aug 2011 23 38 22.75 61% 523.25 Clevedon Transition Group 3rd-5th Aug and 23rd Aug 9 12 22 75% 198

Nailsea Transition Group 25th Aug, 27th-29th Aug

8 9 22 89% 176

Worle Transitions Group 10-12th Aug, 24th Aug 20 21 22 95% 440 Barnardos “Funky Monkey” Group 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 24th and 25th Aug 157 Drop in 29 - 4553

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Resource Service Summer Activities 28th June, 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, 27th July, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th Aug 19 19 34 100% 646

COSMIC 16th, 17th Aug 8 11 48* on return as 2 days 72.72% 384

YOS Summer Activity Programme all summer 38 45 143 84.40% 4066 Junction 21 Mentoring Service 4 (+ 4 mentors) 8 (+8 mentors) 8 50% 32

Clevedon Youth Provision 25th July-1st Aug 49 49 38 100.00% 1862

Girls Allowed 8th Aug 9 15 7 60.00% 63

Forest School 2nd, 4th and 5th Aug

38 drop in 6 - 228

Long Ashton Youth Club 25th, 28th July 19 Drop in 11 - 209

Firs Resource Centre Programme unable to run

Avon and Somerset Police/BIP/Extended

Schools

Programme unable to run

Clevedon Youth Provision 31st October 51 51 21 100% 1071

BIP Transitions Groups 21st, 27th October 16 16 7 100% 112

YOS JFO 16 Feb 2012 10 10 7 100% 70

YOS Girl’s Group Residential

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Appendix E Record of Expenditure

Project/ agency No. of staff

Other funding sourced

Date Amount requested Amount agreed

Actual Invoiced Spend

Decision

Streetfest uk & OEUK ltd

Find your talent, sponserships from local businesses

April ' 11 to September '11

£6,000.00 £0.00 Declined

YOT/ YISP All yot staff and volunteers

July '11 to September '11

£9,507.40 £9,507.40 £9,106.56 Agreed

Cosmic 3 £1466* August '11 £2,057.00 £1,847.00 £1,222.00 Part Agreed

Weston Youth Centre Additional funding has been requested from other agencies. WYC are funding parts of their trips.

4 youth work staff & additional volunteers

£2,711.00 £2,711.00 £2,310.07 Agreed

BIP - Nailsea Some work carried out in house

July, August & September '11

£2,040.00 £2,040.00 £1,797.04 Agreed BIP - Worle Some work carried out

in house

£2,040.00 £2,040.00 £1,823.08 Agreed BIP - Clevedon Some work carried out

in house

£2,040.00 £2,040.00 £1,801.11 Agreed A&S police and

Clevedon School

July & August '11 £1,120.00 £780.00 £750.00 Part Agreed

Weston East Youth Project

July & August '11 £3,000.00 £3,000.00 £3,000.00 Agreed

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Barnardo's ‘Funky Monkey’ Youth Group

4 funded by barnardos

August '11 £1,610.00 £1,610.00 £1,610.00 Agreed

Weston Town Centre Youth Project

July & August '11 £1,432.00 £1,432.00 £1,242.09 Agreed

Long Ashton Youth Club NSC paying for 3x youth staff Transport funded by youth club management committee August '11 £500.00 £500.0011 Agreed Clevedon Youth Provision

Awards for All funding, programme budget & young peoples contributions

July - December '11 £723.00 £723.00 £723.00 Agreed

Youth Offending Service - Mentor Programme x2 yot staff 9th August '11 £420.40 £420.40 £420.00 Agreed

Resource Service Has applied to

different channels for additional funding but nothing has been agreed as of yet

July & August '11 £2,800.00 £1,588.25 £508.27 Part Agreed

BIP - Forest School Are hoping to get

transport for free which will reduce the bid down to £200 if this can be achieved

£320.00 £320.00 £250.00 Agreed

The First Resource Centre - Complex additional needs service

August '11 & October

'11

£11,500.00 £6,285.00 £0.00 Part Agreed

Kewstoke Youth £5,200.00 £0.00 Declined

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Service

BIP - Girls Allowed August '11 £369.95 £320.00

£145.75

Agreed

Current total spend PAYP Summer 2011 (projected)

£57,145.75 £38,919.05 £27,833.97 (£28,333.97)

PAYP Spend Since Summer 2011

A+S Police, Extended Schools and BIP

5 Some funding from Crime Beat and NS Housing being sought for overall project, PAYP monies for trip for 29 people

Oct-11 £1,500.00 £1,500.00 £0.00 Agreed

Clevedon Youth Provision

5 Oct-Nov 2011 £250.00 £250.00 £237.39 Agreed

BIP - transitions Oct-11 £500.00 £500.00 £196.85 Agreed

Girls Group Residential 3 April ' 11 £2,250.00 £1,350.00 Part Agreed

JFO Football Coaching 3 Feb-11 £430.00 £430.00 £430.00 Agreed

Current Total Spend since Summer 2011 (projected) £4,930.00 £4,030.00 £864.24 (£2,214.24)

Current Totals 2011-12 PAYP (as of 07.02.2012) (Projected)

£62,075.75 £42,949.05 £28,698.21 (£30,548.21)

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Acknowledgements:

PAYP panel: Ana Wyman (Early Prevention Manager, YOS), Elaine Harris (Assistant Locality Leader – Youth, Weston South and Central),

Wendy Packer (BIP Manager)

PAYP Co-Ordinator: Mollie Gunner (BIP Diversionary Activity Worker)

Financial Monitoring: Nicola O’Driscoll (Data Information and Admin Team Leader, YOS)

Report Completed by: Ana Wyman (Early Prevention Manager) Using individually collated data from:

Project: Contact:

Weston East Youth Provision Jenny Tungate

Avon and Somerset Police PCSO Caroline Harris

Connexions Sarah Pollard

Weston Youth Centre Esther Bryans Weston Town Centre Youth Project Carolin Peto Behaviour Improvement Programme

(BIP)

Paula La-Milliere Tinney

Barnardos Anthony Hill

The Resource Service Lorna Moss

COSMIC Helen Roy

Clevedon Youth Provision Monica Stanley Long Ashton Youth Club Sue Summers Youth Offending and Prevention Service Mollie Gunner;

Amanda Carver; Steve Coggins; Nigel Davison; David Morgan