Issue - meetings

Mr Leigh Middleton will present the draft specification for commissioning preventative youth services in Runnymede from September 2013-15, as recommended by the local Youth Task Group.

AGREED

a) to approve the allocation of £20,000 to Personalised Prevention Budgets (see 1.3a for details);

b) to approve the local needs specification (Annexe A) to be considered by providers focusing on the identified needs of Runnymede and the geographical neighbourhoods prioritised by the Youth Task Group.

Mr Leigh Middleton noted that a revised version of the report had been tabled. He said that, following consideration of the previous year’s process, it had been agreed to move to a grants rather than a contracts-based system to give greater flexibility and for the same reason, providers might bid for smaller amounts from the total budget with a maximum of four local providers delivering the service together.

 A further change was that as well as using data to identify which young people were at risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training) the local schools, police and youth centres may refer individuals considered to be in need. He explained that a small budget of £20,000, to be allocated by the Youth Support Service manager, would enable young people to be supported with small expenses such as travel costs to ensure they could access their training or employment. Furthermore, the Youth Small Grants budget would be open to small groups of young people to bid for specific purposes, provided that they were supported by a larger organisation which could receive and administer the funding for them.

The chairman thanked Mr Middleton for his work with the Task Group.

AGREED

a) to approve the allocation of £20,000 to Personalised Prevention Budgets (see 1.3a for details);

b) to approve the local needs specification (Annexe A) to be considered by providers focusing on the identified needs of Runnymede and the geographical neighbourhoods prioritised by the Youth Task Group.