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Partnership for Young London's weekly policy update is a collection of policy news, opportunities, and an update on our events and work in London's youth sector. If you have any opportunities or work that you want to promote, please email update.pyl@gmail.com
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A New Peer Led Research Initiative Exploring Identity
A national project is now running across Youth Focus North East, Youth Focus North West and Partnership for Young London in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield. This is a youth-led initiative investigating how young people from different social groups and varied regions of the UK define their identities. The findings will inform the youth sector’s current and future policy and practice. A key part of this work involves an exploratory survey on identity with youth workers. It should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. https://younglondon.typeform.com/to/Hivl28. Your views, knowledge and expertise are highly valued and integral to shaping the programme of work. If you would like to know more please click this link for briefings on the programme.
Calling all organisations working with young people: at a time of crisis (not just pandemic related) who do you turn to?
Survey alert – Funders want to hear from organisations working with young people – how can you make sure you get the support you need? Please complete this survey to support what infrastructure is needed across the youth sector.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JMYQGHK
- Where do youth sector delivery organisations get their infrastructure support from? Complete this survey to help funders get it right.
- What do you need and value? Who do you reply on? What’s missing?
- Help funders improve – they want to hear from you so they fund the right infrastructure support for the youth sector.
Trauma informed practice training series
Partnership for Young London is working in collaboration with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to deliver a series of webinars on trauma awareness, trauma informed practice, developing therapeutic skills for practice and developing trauma informed organisations. Each session is 1.5 hours and will be delivered online, presentation time is approximately 1-hour with time for discussion and questions in the remaining 30 minutes
TRAINING AND ONLINE EVENTS
Upcoming Young Londoners' Fund training sessions.
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.Coronavirus sees more than a million children 'fall off the radar' of youth services
More than a million young people have "fallen off the radar" of youth services during the lockdown, a new report has found. The National Youth Agency (NYA) fears those who are no longer in contact with the relevant authorities could be vulnerable to being targeted by gangs, especially young females. There are more than one million children who require youth services in the UK and it is feared half of them are susceptible to being groomed by gangs or involved in child exploitation as lockdown is eased. Worryingly, one in five youth clubs nationally anticipates it will not reopen once lockdown ends. During the pandemic many youth workers were furloughed and there are concerns cuts by local authorities will result in gaps and questions on the overall financial sustainability of youth and community groups. Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England said: "As we emerge from lockdown the scale of the take requires the mobilisation of youth workers and related professionals, supported by an army of skilled volunteers and safeguarding training, to make sure those young people have the help they need to recover, make sound choices and get ahead in life.
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London Community Response Fund
A new wave of funding has been announced from the London Community Response. Enable grants supports work that helps to prevent difficulties arising from the crisis escalating, and that enables people to emerge from crisis. Adapt grants help organisations to restart, adapt or collaborate for the future.Organisations can apply for up to £50,000 for grants lasting for up to six months, though it can be for a shorter period.
Power to Change - Covid-19 Community-Led Organisations Recovery Scheme
Covid-19 Community-Led Organisations Recovery Scheme offers grants up to £100,000 to community organisations in England who are facing financial difficulties caused by Covid-19. The scheme is aimed at organisations delivering services in their local community to support people who are at high risk from Covid-19, with an emphasis on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)-led or BAME-supporting businesses. The recovery scheme will open on Tuesday 28 July for applications from 10am till 1pm.
The King’s Fund- GSK IMPACT Award
Applications are now open for the 2021 GSK IMPACT Awards. Winning organisations will receive core funding of up to £40,000, plus access to excellent training and development to support their leaders. To be eligible to apply, organisations must be at least three years old, working in a health-related field in the UK, with income between £80,000 and £2.5 million. Deadline is 14 September.
Youth Futures Foundation- Inspiring Futures
This is a £6 million programme to fund positive activities which support children and young people to achieve their potential on their journey towards employment. Funding is available for not-for-profit organisations working to improve employment prospects for young people. The deadline is 31 July at 11:30am.
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Partnership for Young London – COVID – 19 Updates
As well as the Weekly Update mailing list we have created a COVID-19 updates section on our website, and we aim to keep these pages posted on any specific updates that are relevant for the youth sector and young people. Including information on funding, online training and guidance. Please contact Rianne.Williams@cityoflondon.gov.uk if you’d like to add any resources.
The Office for National Statistics- home schooling during COVID-19
The Office for National Statistics has published data from April to June 2020 analysing home schooling trends in families in the UK, with 87% of parents reporting that they were home schooling during that time. The data suggests that struggles with home education have particularly affected single parent families, those with an additional child under 5, and women. The statistics also include:
- The average number of hours spent doing schoolwork per week significantly increased as the age of the child increased from 5 to 10 years (10 hours) to 11 to 15 years (16 hours), with the hours spent learning by those aged 5 to 10 years being significantly lower when there was a child aged 0 to 4 years in the household.
- Over half (52%) of parents with school-aged children said a child in their household was struggling to continue their education while at home, with just over three in four of these parents (77%) giving lack of motivation as one of the reasons.
- One in three women (34%) agreed that it was negatively affecting their well-being compared with one in five men (20%), while 43% of homeschooling parents agreed that it was negatively affecting the well-being of their children.
Only half of parents who were homeschooling (49%) strongly or somewhat agreed that they were confident in their abilities to homeschool their children. Parents also
National Youth Agency- A Youth Work Response to COVID-19
This report summarises key recommendations and the latest research carried out by the National Youth Agency (NYA) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It calls for lessons to be learned as we emerge from national lockdown, in response to local lockdowns and for sustained support to secure youth services for young people over the long term. Just at the time when they were needed the most, many youth work projects stopped or become severely restricted due to lockdown.
The Charity Commission- Annual Report
The Charity Commission is the registrar and regulator of charities in England and Wales. This annual report was laid before Parliament in response to a legislative requirement and was ordered to be printed by the House of Commons. Chief executive Helen Stephenson CBE takes stock of the past year and looks ahead to the regulator’s plans for 2020-21.
The Smith Institute- Universal Credit link to rent arrears
The research, which investigated rent account data from 12 London boroughs, was commissioned by Southwark Council on behalf of London Councils. It found that almost two-thirds of tenants saw a significant increase in rent arrears after claiming Universal Credit, with tenants accumulating an average of £240 in rent arrears in the 12 weeks after they first claimed.
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government- Draft Building Safety Bill
A document presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government by Command of Her Majesty July 2020. This Government is prioritising the urgent reform of the regulatory system for buildings. The extensive reforms brought forward in this large and complex Bill represent the most significant and fundamental changes to building safety legislation in decades. However, concerns were raised at the continuing lack of government support for funding safety works and remediation of dangerous cladding on high-rise blocks owned by social landlords.
DCMS - Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)
DCMS have published guidance for people who work in performing arts, including arts organisations, venue operators and participants.
Click here to see more COVID -19 related resources and guidance (updated weekly).
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Homeless Link- Complex Trauma and Trauma Informed Care
Homeless Link are listening to the needs of their members and putting together a schedule of online events to support the homelessness and supported housing sector during the COVID-19 crisis. These introductory courses will explore what Complex Trauma and Trauma Informed Care is and provide an opportunity to reflect on how services can be a safe and empowering environment for staff and the people you support.
Job Advert - New Horizons vacancy, Accommodation Project Worker
New Horizons Youth Centre are looking for a new colleague to support young people experiencing homelessness to access and maintain accommodation, help them with successful move-on, and to provide housing management expertise and resettlement support across our accommodation projects. Salary is £28,173.49 – £32,650.11 including London Weighting + 6% Contribution pension scheme. Deadline is Monday 17 August 2020 at 10am.
Job Advert- New Horizons vacancy, Impact Learning Officer
Do you have a knack for asking the right questions to find out if support and services work well, have the experience and tools to find the answers, and know how to use these insights for learning and best practice? If so, New Horizons would love to hear from you for their exciting new Impact and Learning Officer position. Salary is £28,455.22 – £32,976.61 including London Weighting + 6% Contribution pension scheme. Deadline is Monday 17 August at 10am.
Opportunities for Young People
Iconic Steps – Filmmaking courses for young people
Iconic Steps is running three filmmaking courses from 3 to 21 August for young people between 16-25. The courses will be in Documentary, Music Video and Commercial Production. In one week for each course, they learn the skills needed to create a video – from development through to editing using industry standard equipment. They can choose which course they would like to join, but limited places are available. After the course, they can join the Iconic Steps alumni network and receive access to job opportunities, a mentor from the industry and 1-2-1 life skills support. Please fill in the application form and send it back to academy@iconicsteps.co.uk and feel free to ask any questions either on email or on 07960896910.
Bright Future Year 12 African & Caribbean Conference 2020
A day of university readiness at King’s College London and Amos Bursary. The Bright Future conference is a conference for year 12 students of African and Caribbean heritage who are interested in gaining a head start in their future. the event is on Thursday 6 August 2020 from 10:00am to 15:00pm.
iBme - Finding Calm in the chaos, mindfulness course
This course will explore simple tools for facing change and challenging times with more calm and strength. This course is aimed at people aged 15 to 21 years old but young people a little younger or older are still welcome. In order to make everyone as welcome, they have set aside 40% of places for young people of colour. This course is from 3 to 7 August – 4 to 5.30pm each day.
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SALTO Youth - RESOLVE: New Youth Order Online Dialogue Activity
The RESOLVE: New Youth Order Online Dialogue Activity provides an opportunity for youth leaders to engage with decision-makers on a local, national and international basis to share their thoughts, opinions and participate in democratic practices. This course is from 10-21 August 2020. Deadline is Friday 31 July.
SALTO Youth- Digital Youth Work Academy- DigYouWork(A)
This is an extensive 4 weeks online training course aiming to explore several digital tools and strategies that youth workers can use in order to digitalise their work with and for young people. This course is from 14 September to 11 October 2020. Deadline is 20 August 2020.
SALTO Youth- Mindset of youth workers in supporting learning through youth mobilities
The overall aim of this training process is to reflect on the mindset of youth workers and exchange, discuss and challenge youth workers about competencies they need for supporting young people’s development in youth mobility and furthermore. This course is from 9-14 November 2020. Deadline is 15 September 2020.
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