Developing local outcomes - Workshop Aim:

This workshop looks at the recently published “framework of outcomes for young people” produced by the Young Foundation (July 2012) and encourages participants to consider how they can develop their own set of outcomes drawing upon existing and emerging best local practice

Financial Costs of Poor Outcomes Average cost of….

• A young person NEET £57k over their lifetime

• A young person in care is in excess of £100k per year

• A Young person being sent to a Secure Training Centre for a year £150k

• Each teen murder is in excess of a £1 million

• Each child born to a teenage mother £90k

*from local and national government audit commission reports

Outcomes for a cost neutral service

• Number of NEETs reduced by 68 young people year on year or

• Number of new referrals into Care reduced by 39 or

• Number of young people sent to Secure Training Centre reduced by 26 or

• 4 Youth murders prevented

• Teenage Pregnancies reduced by 42

Enfield: Service Reviewreviewing quality, quantity & effectiveness

Questions we asked

• What evidence exists to demonstrate the quality and outcomes of our work?

• How can the work be undertaken more effectively and efficiently?• Are resources effectively deployed?• What are the effectiveness of integrated working & partnerships? Are

there further opportunities to develop this?• What do young people say about our service?• What do parents/carers, partners, senior officers and elected

members say about our service?• What can be done to improve our financial sustainability?• How the work fits with our priorities

Enfield: Priorities, Principles and Strategy

Priorities:

• Fairness for All

• Growth and Sustainability

• Strong Communities

Enfield: Principles

• Child’s needs are paramount• Help families stay together• Do everything we can to help children and

young people succeed• Work constructively together• Look after each other and develop our staff• Deliver – do what we say we’ll do• Stay our course

Enfield: Strategy (Building Resilience)

• Early help and support• Targeted to need• Evidence based interventions• Clear intended outcomes• Greater integration between support/statutory

services.

Enfield: Evidencing Outcomes

• A common performance management framework is used by all youth centres/provisions

• An online web based data-recording system is used to record attendance and achievements of young people (council and commissioned services)

• Youth Provisions have annual and monthly targets and are clear on target audience

• Clear engagement of Staff, recognising importance of evidencing impact of their work and value for money

• Regular performance reports and robust management information

Enfield: Focus on targeted & vulnerable groups

• Care Leavers (16+)• Looked After Children (-16)• LDD with statement• LDD without statement• Young offenders (YOS clients) and gang members• Child protection plan• Permanently excluded from school• Persistently absent from school• NEETS/at risk of being NEET• Teenage parents

Enfield: Focus on targeted & vulnerable groups

Enfield: % NEET/NOT KNOWN

Percentage (%) of 13-19 Young People who are NEET/Not Known

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Enfield: Distribution NEET/NOT KNOWNBelow is a map showing where the NEET young people in Enfield live. Each blue dot represents one NEET young person. The underlying data and colours show the deprivation in Enfield.. Dark red shows the most deprived areas and dark green the least deprived areas.

U-18 Conception: Enfield, London, England

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Enfield: Improving Outcomes

• 96% of young people known to us are in education, employment and training

• Up to 30% reduction in ASB• Over 3,280 young people gain

improved life & social skills or nationally recognised awards & qualifications

• Over 2,100 young people improve their local communities through volunteering

• Enfield’s ‘Duke of Edinburgh’ award recently topped the London league table for the number of awards gained

• Reduction in under 18 conceptions

• Improved outcomes across most vulnerable groups of people in particular young people in care, young people with disabilities, children in need

• 65% of known Gang members regular participants at youth provision

• 780 young people from BME groups achieving nationally recognised awards

• 80 NEET young people, 60 young offenders, 140 young people with LDD and 35 persistent absentees achieved a recorded outcome demonstrating that they had improved their life and social skills.

Enfield: Quality Assurance

• Quality assurance is paramount to our thinking• Centres conduct quarterly reviews of projects• Annual Peer inspection using national standards • Monthly Speak Outs in which users evaluate the offer

and agree changes for the future with staff• Online Customer surveys• Young inspectors trained to be part of the next wave of

internal inspections later this year

Questions?