Bath & North East Somerset Council - Youth Service - Policies, Procedures & Guidelines

Youth Service - Policies, Procedures & Guidelines

The following Policies, Procedures and Guidelines are bespoke to the Youth Service. For the full list of Council wide ones please visit 'Policies and Plans'.

Age Range Guidelines for Good Practice (April 2009)

Charging Policy (July 2011)

Street-Based Youth Work Policy & Guidelines (June 2011) - pdf Document. This document has been written to promote and support the development of street-based youth work in Bath & North East Somerset Youth Service as part of its mainstream delivery to young people 11/25 years focussing on those 13-19 years old. This includes projects that are funded through other sources e.g. Town and Parish Councils.

Youth Service Pledge

Youth Service Vision

Youth Service Annual Plan 2011-12 (see Related Documents on the right) -
This Service Plan clearly presents the actions and targets for the new targeted Youth Service over the next year 2011/12.

It has been prepared following a restructure in the Youth Service, which means the Youth Service under the manager of the Divisional Director in Learning and Inclusion Services section, will be focusing 70% of its work on those young people who are more vulnerable and need extra support. The Youth Service sits alongside other educational teams including the Inclusion Support Service and Specialist Behaviour Support Service, Youth Offending Team and Connexions. The Youth Service will be well placed to continue to support the Integrated Youth Support Service, supporting young people’s early preventative agenda’s.

The Youth Service’ biggest challenge during the next 12 months will be to redesign it’s work to focus 70% of it’s work upon delivery to vulnerable individuals, groups and areas as identified assessed need, working in partnership with others to deliver an overall service.

Although the Youth Service has developed some positive links with some of the voluntary sector youth providers over the last six months, there is still much to be done here, so another key focus will be to support and build community capacity within the voluntary sector to support and provide positive activities for young people and to develop the small grants work.
End of Year Report 2010-11 (See Related Documents on the right) -

This Service Plan end of year report clearly demonstrates the actions and targets the Youth Service has achieved in the year. It will demonstrate how the Youth Service staff team have met their targets during 2011 and the on-going good work through a time of change.

Although this report shows good on-going progress from some staff and projects It also reflects areas we are struggling to meet the demands of planned work, due to the end of temporary contracts in September 2011. These contracts ended and the vacancies were not filled whilst we went through a period of change and staff that are being made redundant and/or “TUPE” to Keynsham Town Council. Other staff left from January 2011 through to the end of March 2011 with the staff completing exit strategies. However with projects coming to an end targets were not met consistently across the service which also put a strain on those staff remaining in post. Staff are staying focussed and keeping things going for young people, so work remains of a good standard with young people feeling well supported.

From January to March 2011 we have also been delivering training to all staff and volunteers re-shaping the new service from April 2011 onwards, with a view to do more targeted work. Focusing on early intervention improving outcomes for young people, particularly those who have had a difficult start in life or who are experiencing difficulties, for whatever reason, with a view of helping them to be well prepared for adult life, meeting their hopes and ambitions.