Young People not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in Charlestown & Lower Kersal.

Young People not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in

Charlestown & Lower Kersal

Contents of this report

2. The baseline and the story behind it

3. The current public service response

4. Key issues and principles for a reformed approach

5. Improving outcomes (now, soon & later)

1. Rationale, process and stakeholders

6. Enabling measures

7. Learning from the Spotlight trial

Rationale, process & stakeholder engagement

Rationale

Process

Stakeholder engagement

• Priority within the LAA re. addressing economic prosperity• NDC area contains highest NEET in the City• Key issue within the NDC Education Strategy

• Core Team established• Defining the NEET issue: age 16 – 18 and age 11 + • Detailed picture of cause and effect of the NEET issue • Clarity around the services and system in place to support and prevent NEET young people• Action Plan – short, medium and long term

• Project Champion • Stakeholder mapping • Workshops with Strategic and Frontline Workers • Focus groups with NEET young people and and one to ones • Individual meetings and follow ups

LAA target

• Objective 1 – Improve economic prosperity through educational attainment, skills, employment and enterprise:Outcome 3 – Improved economic wellbeing of young people: reduce the percentage of 16 -18 year olds not in education, employment or training Baseline 2006/07 – 8.4%Target 2009/10 – 7%

Baseline: what the data tells us

NEET % by Ward October 2007

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NEET (October 2007)

60 young people, of which

Short – term NEET (Churn)

46 young people

Long – term NEET : Over 20 weeks (Stock)

14 young people

Unknowns

42 young people

Long - term

4 teenage parents (2 aged 17 / 2 aged 18)

1 young carer aged 18

1 young person in custody aged 18

4 young people aged 17

4 young people aged 18

NEET

51 young people seeking education, employment or training, incl.

13 young people with Youth Offending Service involvement

12 young people with housing issues

16 young people with special educational needs


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Irwell Riverside Kersal

Male

Female

NEET by Gender Breakdown


Maximum Qualification Level Achieved

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Not known below Level1

Level 1 Level 2

Irwell Riverside (Q22007)

Kersal (Q2 2007)

National (Q4 2006)


Young People aged 11 - 16 (out of education)

2006/07 (The Albion High and All Hallows RC Schools)

• 52 pupils with fixed term exclusions in NDC area (14%). This figure

is declining.

• 3 pupils with permanent exclusions in NDC area (0.8%)

Summer Term 2007

• 60 pupils (Years 7 – 10) had unauthorised absences (16.2%)

Autumn Term 2007 (The Albion High)

• 23 pupils on alternative / part time curriculum

Stakeholder perspectives: the story behind the baseline

Family e.g. in and out of low

skilled jobs

Cultural e.g. grey economy

Services e.g. a

need for on going

support

NEET IN NDC AREA

Individual e.g.

learning difficulties

Family e.g. lack of

parental support

Cultural e.g. peer pressure

Services e.g. neg.

experience of school

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Individual e.g. poor

attainment, worklessness

The human story: what this could mean if you are born and raised in Charlestown and Lower Kersal

Case Study - Pre 16

• Yr 10 50% attendance & disruptive

• Home issues – alcohol and absent father

• Interventions from COMPACT & Cyclone work placement

• School attendance increased and placement continued through summer

• Yr 11 detention for previous year, school refused

Case Study - Post 16

• Poor attendance in Yr 11, Connexions interventions starting in March

• Refuses assistance despite significant parental support

• Leaves school with no destination

• Registers with e2e, but is dismissed for smoking cannabis

• Found casual labour but is now out of work

Summary of the issue analysis

• 60 young people in Irwell Riverside / Kersal wards (of which 36 in NDC area)

• Irwell Riverside twice the Salford and national average• Not a static number or picture over the year• People in and out of the system and long term NEET• 42 unknowns / excludes traveller community• Issue of school pupils ‘out of education’ • Causes and effects of NEET varied and complex

• Strong link to special educational needs (cause), low skills and worklessness (effect)

Understanding Need

Amber

Data

- Detailed data available at the local level but not always used or shared- Issue of ‘unknowns’- Missing data re. traveller young people

Performance Monitoring - Mainly city wide rather than neighbourhood based- Outputs v outcomes

Role of community engagement

- Collective localised opportunity for community / frontline worker input ?

Planning and deciding

Amber

Governance and accountability- City wide 13-19 Partnership and NEET sub group Strategic and operational planning- Partnership approach but not local Scope and nature of procurement activity- Fragmented / inflexible - Short term v long term Coordination and openness of procurement- Open to contest?- Role for third sector?

Delivery Chain analysis: the pillars of commissioning

Delivery Chain analysis: the pillars of commissioning

Delivering

Amber

Accessibility- Good range of locally based services but limited outreach Coordination- Need better awareness/referral mechanisms Efficiency/value- Potential duplication of effort- Value of third sector Incentives/motivations for deliverers and customers- Deliverers - quantity v quality- Customers – financial (pos/neg) Outcomes- NEET being reduced / good practice

Reviewing and Learning

Amber

Evaluation of impact- Regular performance monitoring but not locally focused - Tracking and longer term impact?- Impact of third sector? Learning about good practice- Good practice shared between partners but at a local level?

Perspectives on the System

Dealing with

NEET in NDC

Commissioners /

Strategic

‘early intervention required’

‘system is

fragmented’

Young People

‘unwilling to listen’

‘grateful for support and

wide ranging advice’

Front line worker

‘learning mentors in

school are great’

‘people don’t know what

others are doing’

Volunteers

‘not given the recognition

we deserve’

‘reliant on small grants’

Summary of the key strengths

Local data available

Joint Planning

Improvement, commitment

and good practice

NEET in Charlestown & Lower Kersal

Broad range of services and

providersPartnership working

Summary of the key challenges

Information / data sharing

Ensuring local input in to planning

Funding issues / changes

NEET in Charlestown & Lower Kersal

Gaps in the service ‘offer’ Communication and

referral

Principles for a reformed approach

• The range of services to support NEET young people should work as one cohesive, integrated system

• The funders of services in the area should co-ordinate to ensure a cohesive and effective service

• Services should be able to respond to the different needs and circumstances of NEET young people, built on a sound information base.

• The system needs to be more effective upstream i.e. early intervention

• There should be opportunity for a range of providers to work as part of the system.

• Frontline workers should be motivated, valued and rewarded. • The system should learn from ‘what works’ and support cultural

change.

Results achieved during the trial

• Focus Group with NEET young people has provided positive role models and a change in working practice.

• Commitment to outreach between NDC Youth Participation and Oliver’s Gym Youth Club/Amber project

• Greater local awareness between service providers

• Data shared for the first time• Energy about the issue• Better understanding about ‘unknowns’

Proposals to improve outcomes

Short/Medium/LongOver-arching Proposals

Development of local Integrated Youth Support Service with an initial focus on NEET young people

Short

Medium

Medium

Development of a Locality Commissioning Model

NEET as a target in new LAA with a geographical focus


Issue Short/Medium/LongProposal

Earlier intervention from age 10 -13.

Medium

Gaps in service offer

Short

Communication and Referral

One to one support e.g. individual mentoring

Further development of directory of available services, differentiated by type of provision (WUU2).

Medium


Issue Short/Medium/LongProposal

Medium

Local input in to planning

Medium

Long

Common Assessment Framework / Family Action Model / Lead Professional – additional training and focused roll – out.

Communication and Referral cont.

Local Marketing Campaign

Look at role of third sector providers in the system


Issue Short/Medium/Long Proposal

Medium Information / Data sharing

Short

Funding issues / changes

Look at opportunities for mainstreaming / further funding for time expired good practice

Medium

Use of Salford Observatory to focus on a LAA priority with a neighbourhood focus

Support capacity of third sector providers and mainstream commissioners

Develop protocols for data sharing

Long

Scope for innovation?

• Role of ICT in future actions around communication / data sharing

• New models of commissioning particularly around third sector procurement

• Extend scope of Integrated Youth Support Service from age 13 –19 to age 10 - 19

Enabling measures required to deliver improved outcomes

• Ownership of Action Plan

• Sharing and understanding of local data

• Local performance management

• Local partnership development

• Development of commissioning e.g. joint working, more localised, potential providers

• Role, support and capacity of third sector

Summary of learning from this Spotlight trial

Process• First Spotlight so methodology was still being developed as the trial went

‘live’• Importance of Project Champion • Need to expand core team• Resource intensive so need to plan accordingly • Issue of ethics, trust and consent when working with potentially vulnerable

people • Need to build in opportunities to verify findings with different stakeholder

groups • Need to look at good practice from elsewhere • Learning shared and built in to other SpotlightsIssue of NEET • Created energy and focus • Robust and rapid process • Know a lot more about the issue and have a clear way forward

Young People not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in

Charlestown & Lower Kersal

Young People not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in Charlestown & Lower Kersal.

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