Minutes of all committees

East Cheshire Youth Mayor
Northwich Mayoral Consort
Evaluation of UKYP 2008 Process selection & election
Launched Youth Voice groups
BRYC – rural youth forum
ConnexionsDriver Results

Staff recruitment example where leaders supported involving young people in recruitment

Yes but how do we evidence this – This is about Mark/Helen and the creation of the post and also their commitment

CQUIN definitely fits in here

• Evaluation of all work and continuously improving – need to improve outcomes measuring.

* Any written project plans
* Re-shaping of OC
* Service Level Agreement for drug strategy unit
* Appraisal / one to one notes

Chief Executive and Group Head of Creative Learning both support innovation.
Reflection and learning is encouraged throughout the organisation.

Managers and leaders support innovation and encourage their staff and teams to work creatively with children and young people as well as joining in themselves from time to time
• Through staff meetings and team days
• Open Door policy for all the staff and children
• Support staff to work on own initiative
• Coffee Mornings
• Days out
• Newsletters
• Questionnaires
• County Magazine
• Celebration events for CLA
• Quiz for safer sex
• Through Pathways plans
• Informal chats

Managers and leaders support innovation and encourage their staff and teams to work creatively with children and young people as well as joining in themselves from time to time
• Through staff meetings and team days
• Support staff to work on own initiative
• Newsletters
• Questionnaires
• County Magazine
• Celebration events for CLA
• Through Pathways plans
• Informal chats

Feedback and evaluation is acted upon

Projects are monitored and evaluated, and there is an evaluation meeting following the closure of each exhibition at the Shire Hall Gallery.

New themes have been developed based upon feedback and evaluations (e.g.: the Multi-Sensory Room, ‘Urban Places: Open Spaces, Mobile Museum, Making Moves, Sonic dB and Border Moves…)

Managers and leaders support innovation and encourage their staff and teams to work creatively with children and young people as well as joining in themselves from time to time
- Through staff meetings and team days
- Open Door policy for all the staff and children
- Support staff to work on own initiative
- Coffee Mornings
- Days out
- Residential and holidays
- Newsletters
- Questionnaires
- Key Workers
- Seeking funding for trips
- Incentive Stickers for young people
- Photos
- Compliments and complaints book
- County Magazine
- Celebration events for CLA
- Quiz for safer sex
- Through Pathways plans
- Informal chats
- Photographs
- Art work
- Purchase resources needed.
- Celebration events for CLA
All the above are monitored through team days and staff meeting in Furness.

- In the West staff feel they have the support to do this.

- Managers and leaders support innovation and encourage their staff and teams to work creatively with children and young people as well as joining in themselves from time to time
- Through staff meetings and team days
- Support staff to work on own initiative
- Newsletters
- Questionnaires
- County Magazine
- Celebration events for CLA
- Through Pathways plans
- Informal chats

Yes in the main, Have acting group director who isn’t as aware – previous director more committed. Paul Brennan Acting Head of Children and Young People
Meeting yp parliament members at next meeting.

Act on evaluation and feedback
Manage risk
Setting up social enterprise for young people
Engagement and move-on

Director attended training session by YP, Director invites YP to funding meetings

Autonomy is given to staff to support young carers innovation within constraints of safety and capacity
Evaluations carried out on all projects and activities

Consultation groups, youth forum and co working with senior officers and members

Having a young person led Board of Trustees and an AF is innovative and risky.

· Risk assessment processes in place.

· Reflection and learning from mistakes takes place at Health and Safety Committee and Clinical Governance Committee.

Active Involvement training with key staff

Youth events i.e. vox pop, consultation in Coalville and DVD

Young People on interview panels

Directorate push to develop more coherent model of young people’s influence on NYA decision making. Resources identified for developments.

Through Total Respect training/inclusion in staff interviews presentations and training.

1. Development of Derbyshire Youth Service Participation Framework 2006

2. Supervision and stocktake meetings of all staff encourage visionary solutions

3. Transformational Leadership training for all District Managers and Officers 2006

4. CountyDevelopmentDays

5. District Training Events

6. Numerous forums for consulting with staff identified and Participative Framework for staff being developed

· Cnxs has led in many areas of active involvement

· Reflective Practice, Appraisal

LOT report giving full backing to PfC project

Managers willing to embark on “high risk” project with TES to engage excluded group. Take initiative to learn from and extend project

The Council supported young people in their desire to withdraw from the UKYP and align more closely with the British Council. Officers are now supporting the review of UKYP practises.

The development of the Children and Young People’s themed chapter of the Community Strategy involved young people in new and innovative ways.

Verbal commitment from Ops Manager to support innovation.

YSDS Youth Forum have been supported to develop initiatives such as ‘Mystery Shopping’, Youth Grants scheme, the Real Deal young people’s democracy event, Apollo Awards, planning events such as International Women’s Day or Another Level, attendance at conferences, and to establish links with other youth participation projects.

· Peer Educators proposal to LMC for YP’s representation (power point presentation on disk).

· Bus planning day organised by Peer Educators.

· Peer educators Organised YL in C celebration event at DudleyCastle.

· Youth Forum and Peer Educators organise and stage the lunch of the YEC.

· Patchy at service level

· Not in place at Federation level.

· LYTE and the Children’s Panel require officers to work in an innovative way with young people (Children’s Panel was short listed for the IPPR Public Involvement Awards in 2002). These officers accept that ‘outcomes’ don’t happen overnight, and that participation can involve developing relationships and trust over the long term.

JMT - young people attending and Cabinet.

Part of training

· Youth Action Plan 2003/2005 - urban Sports activities

· Community Youth Development Briefing Sheets

Hear By Right is in Youth Strategy