Something to do, somewhere to go, someone to talk to: That’s the aim of Central Government for young people aged between 14 and 19. Government Offices are working to ensure that young people have access to the services the need and are considered in the implementation of new policy.
We bring together the following areas of work and through monitoring performance and facilitating the development of partnerships at a local and strategic level, we help those organisations deliver the Government’s rapidly changing Youth agenda.
- Connexions
- Millennium Volunteers (MV)
- Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP)
- Youth Capital Fund
- Youth Opportunities Fund
Children's Trusts are a change in how children's services are both planned and delivered. They are a way of working together with local partners, as well as sharing information, resources and pooling budgets. They bring together local authorities, health services, social services and more to make accessing services more straightforward. Two of the region’s six Connexions Partnerships [Cambridge & Peterborough and Suffolk] have already completed their integration into local Children’s Trust arrangements and the remainder will complete this transition by 2008.
Our role is to support local partnerships as they develop and implement transition arrangements, providing appropriate challenge and guidance and ensuring that learning and good practice from the Cambridge & Peterborough and Suffolk experience is shared across the region.
Alongside this is our work with partners and local delivery agents to ensure that young people have ready access to positive activities and are encouraged to volunteer and to contribute to their local community. We do this by overseeing delivery of the Positive Activities for Young People and Millennium Volunteers programmes in the region and by working with Local Authorities to ensure that Youth Opportunity Fund (YOF) and the Youth Capital Fund (YCF) monies are applied to best effect.
