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Bristol Youth Links Project Board
Voscur reps are there to ensure that the views of the sector are heard and represented at strategic meetings. Full members of Voscur are eligible to become reps and they are elected for two years. Reps represent the views of, and are accountable to, Voscur children and young peoples network members. Each Rep works to a reps agreement and is expected to promote Voscurs core values. Their responsibilities include: attending the strategic meetings, making their contact details available, attending network meetings and providing reports/feedback from the groups they attend. All of our reps are volunteers and are undertaking this responsibility in addition to their organisational roles. To ensure that representation is a two way process network members are requested to take responsibility for contacting the reps that attend groups of significance to the work of your organisation. If you have concerns/feedback/questions then please share them with your reps.
Please take some time to feed your views about representation to Voscur, thank you.
Some reps were elected jointly from the Voscur, Care Forum and BDA networks. These reps will contine in their role until the new support service and VCS assembly is set up for which Voscur is the lead provider. The contact details are supplied for each rep so that you are able to get your views heard and to find out what is going on. More information is available at http://www.voscur.org/newVCSsupportservice.
VCS representatives have provided a crucial voice for the sector and included a wide perspective at strategic levels. During the transition phase, the current VCS reps will continue to attend meetings to fulfil this role. Until the launch of the new VCS Assembly rep. vacancies will be temporarily filled where possible until the Assembly details are finalised and the way forward for selecting VCS reps is agreed.
Representatives from the Children and Young People's Network onto strategic bodies are:
This partnership used to bring together key agencies and partners across the sectors to shape services for children and young people in Bristol. It now exists as a Children and Young People's Trust Board and three workstream groups, for the delivery of the Children and Young People's Plan. It is a sub-group of the Bristol Partnership. A structure chart can be viewed here.
Click here for February 2011 report
Click here for November 2010 report
Click here for the September 2010 report and clck here for a video report from Fran Harrison
Click here for report for July 2010 and discussion paper on the changing landscape
Click here to watch the video report from the July Children and Young Peoples Trust meeting
Three workstream groups have been established for the Children and Young People's Partnership Board. The reps to these workstream groups were elected following a joint nomination and voting process for Voscur, The Care Forum and BDA members.
The Reps to the workstream groups are:
Jendayi Serwah - Barnardos
email: jendayi.serwah@barnardos.org.uk
Second rep. vacancy
This group needs VCS reps. The group is chaired by Jackie Turner who is part of the School Improvement Team, Bristol City Council.
This group has two reps from the voluntary sector. The group is chaired by Anne Goymer from Barnardos.
Frances Fox, The Bridge Foundation
Karen MacVean, Karen_MacVean@shelter.org.uk
Click here for Briefing in relation to ‘The Munro Review of Child Protection: Part One’
Click here for the October 2010 report
Discussion points from the Children and Young People's Trust Board about safeguarding, between February 2008 -2010 can be viewed here.
There is currently a vacancy for the Rep for the Diploma Development Group (DDG).
The Diploma Development Group is a sub group of the 14-19 partnership board.
This partnership provides a forum for the Local Authority to engage with providers and other partner agencies in the development and delivery of the strategy for Early Years in the City. It feeds into the Prevention and Early Intervention workstream.
The rep is Paul Dielhenn, from BAND.
Tel: 0117 9542128
Email:paul@bandltd.org.uk
Second rep:
Comments invited on the Early Years Outcomes Duty Plan. Click here to read this.
Read the June 2010 Report here
Read the March 2010 report here.
Read the November 2009 report here.
This group meets quarterly and looks at provision at entry and Level 1 for young people in the city.
Troy Tanska - The Basement Studio
Tel: 0117 9349013 email: troy@basementstudio.co.uk
These are voluntary sector reps. on the 10 Locality Governance Executive Boards. They meet once a term and oversee extended school partnership and multi -agency work for the Locality Partnerships.
Recent reports from reps can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate locality as follows:
North 1 North 2 North 3 2011
East Central 1 October 2010 East Central 2 East Central 3 October 2010
South 1 South 2 South 3 South 4
The two reps for this group are:
This replaces the Youth Stakeholder Strategy Group. This is a group that meets to plan the delivery of integrated youth support services in Bristol.
Jo Stallard - BREAD
Jo Stallard: Tel 0117 9427 676 e-mail: jo@breadyouthproject.org.uk
The Bristol Youth Links Blog is now live at the Bristol children wordpress site providing you with the opportunity to keep up to date and inform proposals for the new integrated Bristol Youth Links services for young people aged 8 - 19 (and for those up to 24 with additional needs). The site is at:
http://bristolchildren.wordpress.com/consultations/bristolyouthlinks/
Bristol Youth Links Blog provides up-to-date information for young people, stakeholders and providers who are interested in this development. As well as containing information on progress to date it also provides you with the opportunity to submit suggestions and comments and to ask any questions. You can also feedback on the draft commissioning plan which is now on the blog.
Please read the information from Rose Richards, Service Manager, Youth, Play and Outdoor Education, BCC for more details. Feedback should be submitted via the blog or to Samantha Flowers, Bristol Youth Links Project Officer Samantha.flowers@bristol.gov.uk (at the latest 30th August 2011).
Presentation by Mark Hubbard, Bristol Compact and comments from VCS groups at CYP network 16.02.2011
Feedback form for options until 28.02.2011
Presentations from Craig Bolt and Alison Jackson from market testing event 12.1. 2011
Minutes of meeting on 26.10.10
Click here for minutes of meeting on 12th October 2010
Click here to see the report from this group
This event was held on the 23 March 2010. Please see below for links to the presentations for the day.
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