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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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Unapologetically Me - Job Opportunity
Partnership for Young London is pleased to be able to offer a new role, for a young person, as part of a programme of work called Unapologetically Me, funded by National Community Lotteries. This work is primarily focused on supporting young people from BAME communities through the impact of COVID-19. Please read the JD for further details on the role and how to apply if you are a young person and interested or circulate the advert through your networks. The deadline for applications is Friday 2 October.
Open Access Youth Work
Join us for a discussion on Wednesday 14 October 2 - 4pm, about Open Access Youth Work and the report A Narrative Review of Impact. Our recent research report looking at the available evidence on the impact of open access youth work has added to the strong narrative emerging from other research (particularly in Scotland). This narrative highlights the role of open access youth work in young people’s lives, including their learning and development, health and wellbeing, safety, and relationships. It also draws out the ‘features’ of open access youth work that contribute to impact. But how should we use this narrative? How can it support and improve the quality of practice? How can it influence future investment into open access youth work? What does it mean for how we evaluate open access youth work in the future?
TRAINING AND EVENTS
Detached Youth Work Series
Young Londoners' Fund - Safeguarding training series
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National Youth Agency update - Youth Sector and Test & Trace App
Following the latest Government update, the youth sector remains at AMBER on the readiness framework. From Thursday 24 September 2020, all youth sector venues are required, by law, to display a QR code linked to the NHS Test and Trace mobile app. Only one per venue is required. If using a shared venue, the owner of the venue should provide this. Contact NYA Guidance at guidance@nya.org.uk.
Charities call on Government to tackle declining student mental wellbeing
A new charity wide report has found that young people’s mental wellbeing has declined during the Covid-era and has called on the Government to act. Covid-19 uncertainty has presented unique challenges for education with digital poverty, lockdown anxiety, and lack of support affecting students and teachers. These theme were highlighted in the first annual report by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition (CYPMHC), a joint campaign of nationwide charities, which said that there are signs that Covid-19: has exacerbated underlying mental health problems of young people. Charities in the report voiced their concerns that early mental health interventions were hampered during lockdown, and that post-lockdown 88% of youth services said that they are likely, or very likely to be reducing their services to young people- and all this after the decade long budget squeeze on youth services. Poverty was also addressed as an important factor in student’s education attainment, and its impact on their mental health during lockdown.
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Youth Music - Funding Streams
Youth Music funding streams invest in music programmes for children and young people, and work that helps organisations to diversify and be more inclusive. Programmes funded by Youth Music work with children and young people of all ages, from babies and their families through to young adults up to the age of 25, using the power of music to support musical, personal and social development. There are several different funding streams available.
The Phoenix Fund
Applications are open to round four of The Phoenix Fund, offering core funding to BAME grassroots groups across England working with BAME communities. Grants of up to £20,000 are available to organisations that have annual operating budgets up to £100,000 per year. Deadline is Wednesday 30 September 2020
A New Direction: Arts Award Access Fund
The Access Fund provides grants of between £100-£1,500 to Arts Award centres working on Arts Award projects with young people who face barriers to access and inclusion. Applications are now open to all registered Arts Award centres in the UK. Deadline is Friday 9 October.
NESTA – Rapid Recovery Challenge
The Rapid Recovery Challenge is a new £2.8 million challenge prize that will find and support tools and services that improve access to jobs and money for people across the UK, focussing on those hardest hit by the economic shock resulting from COVID-19. The fund closes on Monday 26 October.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Weston Culture Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation Is launching a £25m fund for arts charities. This £25 million fund is designed to support mid to large scale cultural organisations in the UK to help them restart work, re-engage with audiences, adapt to changed circumstances and generate revenue.
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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.
Danny Kruger MP - Levelling Up Our Communities
Levelling up our communities: proposals for a new social covenant sets out a vision for a more local, more human, less bureaucratic, less centralised society in which people are supported and empowered to play an active role in their neighbourhoods. The report highlights that it is estimated that up to a million young people may face unemployment in the coming years. The following proposals seeks to alleviate the crisis facing young people by giving them a leading role in the national recovery. They include:
- There should be a programme within the Kickstart scheme designed to deploy up to 100,000 young people on a range of social and environmental projects. Young people would be paid via Kickstart to do this work, which could be full-time or (for those in training or employment) part-time
- Funding for the individual work placements is available from the Kickstart scheme. Additional funding for management, training etc, could be found from a range of current budgets, including NCS, the National Tutoring Programme for schoolchildren, the Youth Investment Fund, and the Apprenticeships Levy.
- In addition to their salary via Kickstart, young people could benefit from extra advantages through the Volunteer Passport system, including a digitally delivered skills offer, with an online training curriculum.
- Propose a major new endowment - the Levelling Up Communities (LUC) Fund - to provide a permanent source of income for the UK’s communities. Estimates suggest a sum of at least £2 billion is sitting in dormant insurance accounts and other financial products.
New Horizons Youth Centre - Report from the Young People Sleeping Rough Sub-Group
Chaired by Phil Kerry, CEO of New Horizon, the Young People Sleeping Rough Sub-Group conducted its research on behalf of the Mayor’s Life Off the Streets Taskforce in 2019. The sub-group aimed to get a more accurate picture of scale of rough sleeping among 18-25-year-olds and the services they need. The sub-group identified that:
- There is a need to ensure that data recording helps to identify the total number of young people sleeping rough and why they are doing so. The reports shows there is a need and scope to improve data collection across youth homelessness providers, local authorities and the official London CHAIN rough sleeping database.
- Young people may sleep rough in ways that mean they are less likely to be visible and therefore secure help. The report shows that young people deal with their street homelessness differently and in ways that make them less visible to the outreach teams: 67% of the survey respondents mentioned that they have not bedded down.
- Improving prevention and awareness of homelessness and services. The report points out that many young people tend to be hidden homeless before becoming street homeless, and highlights the need for better prevention services: 43% of respondents had sought help from their local council prior to sleeping rough for the first time.
Kings College London - Managing through COVID-19: the experiences of children's social care in 15 English local authorities.
Examines the arrangements introduced in 15 local authority children's social care departments in England during the coronavirus pandemic. Discusses: referrals of concerns about children's welfare; working with families in a pandemic; contact with families; child protection conferences; contact between children and birth families; foster care; placements; care leavers and unaccompanied young people seeking asylum; residential homes; and multi-agency working.
Power the Fight - Therapeutic Intervention for Peace (TIP) Report
Power the Fight has published Therapeutic Interventions for Peace, a report commissioned by London's Violence Reduction Unit to explore young people's experiences of recovering from youth violence in order to inform more effective therapeutic responses in the capital. Key findings include:
- The majority of young people surveyed had a high proximity to violence (experiencing it either first-hand or through close friends), with experiences of violence most likely to lead to feelings of anger. Black and male respondents were less likely to talk about these feelings and more likely to deal with these feelings through retaliation.
- Therapeutic services that fail to understand the broader contexts and causes of youth violence risk harming young people further by making them feel they are the problem.
Modern Slavery: National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify Statistics UK, Quarter 2 2020 – April to June
Latest quarterly government statistics on potential victims of modern slavery referred to the National Referral Mechanism for access to support show that for the first time since 2014, the number of children referred has exceeded the number of adults, while the overall trajectory has been rising since then. 1,724 children were referred in the last quarter, of whom 78% were male. The government attributes the rise in rates of child criminal exploitation to increasing identification of county lines cases.
Child Poverty Action Group - Low-Income Parents Relying on Child Benefit for Household Basics
The research, from Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), is based on a survey of 1,000 parents receiving child benefit in summer 2020. The findings were compared with the results of a similar survey conducted in 2012. Parents were asked to select all items or services they used part or all of their child benefit to pay for.
Key survey findings 2020:
- 28% of parents receiving child benefit said they now spend it on day-to-day living/general expenses, up from 2 per cent in 2012
- 14 per cent reported spending child benefit on bills, up from 4 per cent in 2012
- 33 per cent are spending it on food in 2020, up from 26 per cent in 2012
- Fifteen per cent of parents today spend child benefit on baby products/formula milk/nappies/wipes compared to 9 per cent in 2012
- Today just less than a quarter (23%) spend it on clothes/shoes for children (down from 51% in 2012).
Child Poverty Action Group is calling for a £10 weekly increase in child benefit to ensure that parents can protect their children from hardship. While the pandemic has made finances even tighter for families, there was no targeted extra support for children in the Government’s economic response, besides a temporary extension of free school meals replacement vouchers.
A New Direction: Artsmark Partnership Programme
This is an Arts Council endorsed network of organisations who are devoted to bringing great arts and cultural opportunities to children and young people. The Artsmark Partner Marketplace is an opportunity for schools, arts and cultural organisations, and freelancers to connect. This will be the first virtual marketplace. If your organisation would be interested in exhibiting and sharing details of your offer with schools, please fill out the Expression of Interest form.
Click here to see more COVID -19 related resources and guidance (updated weekly).
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House of Commons Education Committee - impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services: call for evidence
The deadline for submission of evidence to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry looking at how the coronavirus crisis has affected all aspects of the education sector and children’s social care system is Wednesday 30 September 2020.
Heart of the City - 2021 foundation programme for SME businesses
Applications for London SMEs to join Heart of the City in 2021 are open now. The 2021 foundation programme will support businesses to do well by doing good. Workshops, webinars and coaching will help them with community support, reducing their environmental impact, care for their staff’s mental health and improve diversity and inclusion. There are 60 funded introduction year places available to SMEs based in London.
Rinova - Pathways to Creative Enterprise, YEAP!
The Youth Enterprise Advanced Pathway (YEAP!) is designed to support the growth of entrepreneurial spirit among young people. Six partners in five European countries have developed a new pathway based upon principles of Problem-Based Learning/Learning by Doing, supported with learning tools for strengthening young people’s entrepreneurial skills and competencies. The online event will be held on Tuesday 29 September, 2pm to 3.30pm.
Violence Reduction Unit – MyEnds Programme
MyEnds’ is about increasing the sustainability of community networks, so the VRU are funding consortiums that can demonstrate an ability to establish a local network which draws on the expertise of residents and stakeholders. They have allocated £3.3m to the ‘MyEnds’ programme. A minimum of four funded consortiums across London will benefit from a budget of up to £750,000 in total to design and deliver a place-based approach to reducing violence over 36 months. Deadline is on Friday 23 October 2020.
Job Advert – Toynbee Hall, When We Speak Programme Manager
The When We Speak Programme Manager will be responsible for building and developing their heritage, youth and residential volunteering programmes – with a strong focus on how people experiencing structural inequality have historically and can continue to influence change. The role is Part-time, 28 hours per week. Salary is £30,400 per annum. Deadline is Tuesday 13 October 2020.
Opportunities for Young People
Catch 22 & Social Switch Project - Digital Skills and Pre-employability training
This 4-week training course followed by two months tailored 1-2-1 support is designed to equip London’s young talent with the confidence, skills, knowledge and experience to progress into sustainable careers in the digital industries. This interactive online course will look at how digital skills and social entrepreneurship can be valuable at this time and explore progression into employment or self-employment. The course is 3 days a week and starts on Tuesday 6 October, 10.30-1.00pm. Deadline for referrals is Friday 25 September 2020.
National Citizen’s Service – Half Term Programme
This half term NCS will be holding a week’s worth of activities that are designed to help young people to meet new people and have a load of fun, gain skills that are great for the future and will build their CV’s, encourage creativity and boost confidence.
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Eurodesk UK
Eurodesk UK provide information for young people aged 13-30 on the different opportunities available and an insight into what it’s like to take part in European youth projects. For adults working with young people, there is support including resources, and information and training linked to youth work. They also support young people directly through the European Youth Portal which includes an ‘Ask a question’ service.
Celebrating 30 years of Eurodesk
Eurodesk are holding a virtual celebration on Wednesday 21 October for its 30th birthday. They will interview key figures in the history of the network, rediscover the main highlights over the years and will present the Eurodesk UK Network Award Winner. There will also be first-hand experiences from young people and the opportunity to take part in quizzes. Anyone who registers by Wednesday 14 October, will be sent birthday cake in order to celebrate during the virtual event.
Eurodesk - Youth Worker Education in Europe
This publication looks at how youth work practitioners learn their skills, which formal and non-formal education offers exist, and how education is contextualised in the broader picture of youth work recognition. The situation of youth workers in different countries varies from advanced practice architectures for youth worker education to those in need of development. This publication aims to support youth work so that it becomes more visible and evolves into a recognised field of practice among other occupations and professions engaging with young people.
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