Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for People.

The report explains that the Targeted Youth Support (TYS) policy was first introduced in 2008. A large number of LA’s incorporated the policy and changed the way that they delivered services to ensure that the most vulnerable young people were benefitting from a model of ‘Targeted Youth Support’. The model was not fully rolled out in Stockport and therefore it is an opportune time for this to be revisited. The way services are delivered has moved on since that time however pertinent elements of the concept of TYS can be incorporated into an implementation plan for Stockport and the principles of identification of young people and targeted service delivery can be adopted as good practice and form the basis for an updated local protocol and operating guidance.

The Scrutiny Committee are invited to consider and comment on the report.

Officer Contact: Jacqui Belfield-Smith on Tel: 474 4789 or email: jacqui.belfield-smith@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director for People submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update in respect to the Targeted Youth Support Policy which was first introduced in 2008.

The following comments were made/issues raised:-

·         Targeted Youth Support aimed to ensure that the needs of vulnerable young people were identified early and met by the most appropriate agencies which included the PVI sector.

·         Targeted Youth Support was a voluntary community based service which focused on inclusion and working with the hardest to reach, marginalised young people and their families.

·         Targeted Youth Support aimed to build on the previously successful Youth Offending Service Prevention Strategy which delivered crime prevention programmes in schools and a range of early interventions to children and young people identified as at risk of offending.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.