This document discusses the challenges of integrating services and partnership working to address youth unemployment. It summarizes a meeting that brought together various partners, including further education colleges, voluntary community services, and training providers. The meeting highlighted achievements in breaking down barriers between sectors, as well as continuing challenges around developing more inter-partner collaboration. It also provided examples of programs that partner organizations ran together to help young people who were not in education, employment or training.
5. SW Food & Drink Network
Cornwall Chamber of Commerce & Industry
League of Carers Camelford School
Penwith College Pre School Learning Alliance
CITB nextstep MCTi Ultra Training
Digital Peninsula Network Bodmin College
St Austell Brewery Business Link
Workforce DevelopmentChildminders Association
Cornwall College Cornwall Project Partners
DMT TUC KADN Network Training
Cornwall County Council Cornwall Engineering Group
Truro College CPR Regeneration Focus Training
Adult Education Service Cornwall Marine Network
Environment Kernow
CHRAG SW Tourism Launceston college
Tourism Skills Network SW Newquay for Excellence
Arts Centre Trust
Cornwall Sustainable Building Trust
6. Achievements
• Breaking down pre conceptions between sectors ie VCS,
Training Providers, Schools and Businesses
• Getting qualifications and skills to those that wouldn’t
otherwise achieve them
• Spin offs
• VCOs sitting as equal partners round the table
• Involving organisations that could not otherwise be involved
• Large complex partnerships can be made to work
• Avoid duplication and unnecessary competition
• Virement of outputs & funds
8. FREESTYLE
£6,600,000
2,500 young people
Minimum of 50% NEET
500 each doing non-accredited, other accredited,
Level 1 and Level 2 qualifications
Capacity building
1,500 progressing into further learning, volunteering
and employment
9. Freestyle
To provide a wrap-around service for young people
aged 14-19 who are at NEET or at risk of becoming
NEET and progress them into further learning,
volunteering or employment through.
Targeted Youth Support
Pathways to Apprenticeships
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
10. Partners
Access DMT Redruth YPC
Barnardos DPN Rezolve
BB Horse Eden RIO
BF Adventure Events4all Sea Comms
BTCV Integer South Shore
Chestnuts K3 YPC SR Training
Cornwall College LIFT PZ T&P College
CMN M-MAD Vol Cornwall
CN4C Newq YPC White Gold
Cornwall Learning Pentreath Woodland
CSSE Prince’s Trust YMCA Mull
CTC Reachout YMCA PZ
YOS
15. M-MAD, PCAD &
dB Music
Music & Gaming
Cost of development work
16. Foyer Tim – 18 & NEET
Did have CAF
The Ark Dyslexia
Young Son
CSSE Confidence & Future Hopes - 1
Satellite Programme
Eden BF Adventure Stu Williams
‘A Great Day Out’ Redruth Radio
17. Pentreath Ltd
Sally
Enjoyed School – work experience at solicitors
College Studying – CILEX – Legal Secretary
“Disheartened and despondent”
“Feel like dropping out”
“Bad at parking”
Pentreath
Confidence building training
Work experience
Maternity cover at Solicitors
Ongoing support when in employment
18. NEETs in Cornwall
16-19
December 2011
Network Area No. of NEETs % NEET
Bodmin 77 9.1%
Falmouth/Penryn 50 6.1%
Camborne & Redruth 130 5.6%
Newquay 69 6.5%
Launceston 38 4.9%
St Austell 51 4.7%
Hayle & St Ives 33 3.3%
CORNWALL 1,000 4.8%
19. An Attempt to Implement a Joined Up Approach
The Pilot!
•Selected Bodmin and Falmouth/Penryn
•Referrals from Careers SW.
•Case Worker to work with CSW PA to identify and purchase
a range of provision to suit individuals need.
•Importance of good IAG
•Linkages to other programmes including Cornwall Works
with Families and Council Localities teams.
21. Some Thoughts
• Organisations doing what they are good at.
• Good IAG essential
• Support for the young person needs to continue
whilst in employment.
• Need to recognised the contribution of
organisations and individuals and pay where
appropriate.
• Need to find ways of sharing data.
House keeping – fire, toilets, coffee and lunch Not and LSC, JCP, GOSW etc meeting. Come about because of number of organisations conerns The pm meeting was already booked so decided to make a day of it!