Integrated Youth Support Strategy Team

Please Note: 
Due to the reductions in the area based grants, announced by government very recently, there will be no further applications to the Norfolk Youth Fund accepted.

Welcome to the Norfolk Children's Services Integrated Youth Support Strategy Team and Area Youth Work Teams. I hope that you will find the contents of this site both interesting and informative.

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OfSTED rate Norfolk's Youth Service as Good!

Read here of a very successful example of partnership working between Integrated Youth Support Strategy Team, Children's Services and a local education provider; more importantly it reinforces cross boundary partnership working between Norfolk and north Suffolk colleagues.   June 2010

Great Yarmouth Information Event Article

Photos from the above event.   Putting on the hard hat to do some welding.

To find out what young people think about Youth Matters.

Read the Youth Matters - Young People's questionnaire.

Integrated Youth Support Strategy Team Plan

The Integrated Youth Support Strategy Team Plan is an umbrella document which brings together the various operational plans describing youth work delivery within Children's Services.

The plan is made up of the following sections:

1.  Norfolk Youth Offer

2.  Locality Planning Requirements 09-10 
     This document is a specification of what each locality youth work plan should contain.  These 13 locality plans can be viewed below.

Western Area	Northern Area	Central Area	Eastern Area	Southern Area
Locality 1a	Locality 3	Locality 6	Locality 9	Locality 11
Locality 1b	Locality 4	Locality 7	Locality 10	Locality 12
Locality 2	Locality 5	Locality 8		Locality 13

3.  Off Centre Counselling Plan 
     Operational plan for youth counselling service.

4.  Active Citizenship Plan
     Operational plan for Active Citizenship Team.

5.  Norfolk CVYS Delivery Plan
     Operational plan for Norfolk Council for Voluntary Youth Services commissioned by Youth Strategy Office.

For more information about Norfolk's new Outdoor Education Programme at Whitlingham please enter the website.

Find out what Norfolk is doing about Integrated Youth Support
Click on the links below:

Integrated Youth Support Multi-agency Reference Group  - This document describes the process to develop options for Integrated Youth Support (IYS) for Norfolk as required by the Youth Matters: Next Steps reforms.

• BMG Research Report
• Developing Integrated Youth Support for Norfolk: A Research Briefing Note
• Integrated Youth Support - Combined Project Plan - BMG and Renew Consulting: Draft 3, 4 July 2007
• Towards Integrated Youth Support Multi-agency Reference Group (MARG) - Terms of Reference
• Towards Integrated Youth Support Multi-agency Project Team - (MAPT) - Terms of Reference

The following are documents relating to Integrated Youth Support, dated January 2008:

• Bostock Marketing Group Ltd (BMG) Research - January 2008
• Integrated Youth Support for Norfolk - Self Assessment Progress Report for GO-East
• Targeted Youth Support in Norfolk - Self Assessment - Response to GO-East, 23 January 2008

Integrated Youth Support in Norfolk : Report February 2008

Integrated Youth Support in Norfolk: Report March 2008