How the IYSS will impact services

An IYSS doesn’t seek to create a brand new service but we do attempt to work in new ways to improve life opportunities for young people.

There are a number of areas that will impact on services working under an IYS but broadly they can be summarised under four headings:

• Delivering a neighbourhood and city response – services will respond to the needs of local communities (via the 8 neighbourhoods) as well as making sure there is a balance of support across the city.

• Integrated Working – Services retain responsibility for their own staff but will work together to identify priorities and see resources can come and be used together. We aim to develop a joint “locality delivery plan” and virtual “IYSS locality team” built around a commitment to Integrated working. This will involve:

• Identifying the local needs and requirements, recognising what is in place already and then planning services and support accordingly.

• Staff from a range of services coming together as part of a multi agency response.

• Getting better at sharing some resources across a range of services (e.g. marketing or quality assurance) and addressing how services share information and data particularly on those young in need of targeted youth support.

• Integrated Service Hubs to continue to have a crucial role in identifying supporting young people who are vulnerable or at risk.

• Integrated Work Force Development: An ongoing commitment under the Children’s workforce development framework to improve the knowledge skills and abilities of those that work with young people. This will involve:

• Review of training needs – recognising where we are and what needs to be done.

• Supporting the “Common induction training” and “common core skill set” – ensuring the fundamentals of working with children and young people are in place.

• Making sure specialist skills and qualifications available locally and staff are progressing with them.

 See www.leicester.gov.uk/childrensworkforcestrategy or www.childrensworkforcematters.org.uk for more details.

• Integrated Processes – Using common and shared systems or procedures to make sure young people are supported and resources and effectively used to avoid waste or duplication. This will involve:

• Ongoing use of the Common Assessment Framework and lead professional to identify vulnerable young people.

• The Team Around the Young Person (TAYP) working in Integrated Service Hubs (ISH) to co-ordinate and deliver targeted youth support.

• Better sharing of data between services to highlight priorities, areas of concern and to demonstrate where we are making a difference.

• Developing a longer term commissioning strategy that secures support and services for young people from a range of providers according to priority needs and to deliver the local youth offer.