09:00 - Registration and refreshments

09:30 - Chair’s opening remarks

Fiona Blacke, Chief Executive
National Youth Agency

09:40 - Keynote: Understanding the development in youth services and future challenges

• Looking ahead at Aiming High progress over the coming year and its importance for youth service integration
• Youth Task Force - Combining tough enforcement, support and prevention to improve young people's lives and protect communities
• The impact of raising the participation age - Progression routes and information, advice and guidance
• Youth facilities - The strategic local vision

Andrew McCully, Director, Supporting Children and Young People
Department for Children, Schools and Families

10:10 - Training your staff to deliver effective Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) and linking IAG to the wider integrated offering

• Understanding the key challenges of modernising IAG services
• What is careers guidance? Preparing young people for a fast changing world
• Establishing responsibility and accountability: Clarifying who does what within IAG and CEG service provision
• Practical steps to get employers more actively involved in the design and delivery of courses
• Understanding new national standards and implementing them locally

Steve Stewart, Chief Executive, Coventry and Warwickshire Connexions & Vice Chair of Executive
Warwickshire Children’s Trust

10:40 - Connexions: Understanding the impact of changes to the service

• A national overview of the changes and a local level perspective
• How can the new structure and funding for your newly integrated service be optimised?
• Sharpening the focus on creating a more holistic service and increased accountability through the integrated model

Andrew Simmons, Chief Executive
Connexions Hertfordshire

11:10 - Question and answer session

11:20 - Morning refreshments

11.45 - Integrated youth support services and the wider integration

• Building brighter futures – the next steps
• Developing innovative multi agency models for early identification and intervention: The case for whole system change
• Developing the role of the lead practitioner and building the team around the family
• Opportunities and challenges for youth services and the youth offer
• Engaging young people in shaping services

Brian Langley, Head of Change for Children Programme
Gateshead Council

Harry Matthews, Area Manager and IYSS lead
Gateshead Council

12.20 - Stream A: Using the web to promote positive activities for young people

• Establishing schemes of activities for young people
• Encouraging ownership of the scheem by young people
• Giving them the skills to utilise the web and generate awareness
• Results of research into young people's experience and enjoyment of the scheme
• Practically rolling it out across more youth groups

Opportunity Links offer a complete solution to helping local authorities meet their Section 12 duties on information. Our focus is that of a technical supplier whilst also providing consultancy and operational support to help with all the elements of this section and the sector needs.

We are also committed to engaging, understanding and developing information solutions that meet the youth market.

Nikki Soyza, Research and Consultancy Manager
Opportunity Links

12:20 - Stream B: Case Study Balancing Targeted Youth Support within your wider offering

• Moving towards more targeted work with vulnerable people, and planning for resource and staff need
• What does success look like? Evidencing and measuring outcomes
• How will the targeted agenda be delivered against the wider positive activities agenda? Resolving the tensions in focus and funding and considering an entitlement model

Paul Baker, Targeted Youth Support Lead Officer
Leeds City Council

13:00 - Lunch

13.50 - Incorporating the youth voice and evidencing successful outcomes

• Placing young people at the heart of the decision-making process
• Using Hear by Right and What’s Changed as tools to gather examples of change linked to the 5 ECM outcomes and measure success
• UKYP- examples from young people on campaigns and how they have created change

Melody Hossaini, Project Officer
National Youth Agency and UK Youth Parliament

14:20 - Stream A: Strengthening family intervention and intensive support

Louise Bower , Family Intervention Programme Manager
Sheffield City Council

14:20 - Stream B: Education, sport and leisure working together for a creative youth offering

• Proven partnership working to increase engagement and improve behaviour amongst young people
• Working effectively together across education, leisure and support teams to provide a comprehensive support service
• Accrediting alternative skills and experience to increase young people’s confidence and provide different progression routes
• Innovative ways to stimulate productive partnership with young people and engage them in the design and delivery of their services
• Developing the whole family approach: Using youth services as a hook to reach the adult and parenting populations

Jane Nolan, Head of Young People’s Services, North
Clubs for Young People

15:00 - Afternoon refreshments

15.15 - Developing the offer for young people

• Learning and Skills Council capital funding for colleges to create/improve learning and activity centres
• Increasing the involvement of youth services in multi-agency support within colleges
• Preparing local authorities for the transfer of responsibilities from the Learning and Skills Council
• Maximising alternative options for young people: cultural, sporting, voluntary and educational partnerships

Stuart Gardner, Senior Policy Manager Access and Engagement
Learning and Skills Council

15.45 - Stream A: A new approach to youth services - Leicester City's model of integrated and extended services

• Striking the balance between the case-load model and ECM outcomes for the majority
• Focusing on smooth transition and data sharing to identify continuing needs and support
• Translating the roles and responsibilities of professionals in different settings
• Examining the implications of co-locating teams and preparing for communication and assessment needs

Paul Vaughan, Head of Youth Services
Leicester City Council

Vicky Wibberley, Interim Head of Service Change for Children
Children and Young People's Services

15.45 - Stream B: Upskilling staff and developing a joint induction programme to deliver an integrated workforce

Designing a generic induction and introduction to the ECM Agenda for the one children’s workforce. Developed across collaborating authorities to create a flexible, integrated workforce with an improved understanding for all those working with and supporting children young people and their families.

Rachel Faulkner, Project Manager - Common Induction Programme
Stoke-on-Trent Council

16:25 - Conference closes