Welcome to Staffordshire Young People's Service (SYPS)

The Youth Matters Green Paper published in 2005 and the subsequent Youth Matters Next Steps in 2006 drives a re-shaping of current support services for Young People, and requires local authorities through children's trust arrangements to create a more responsive and Staffordshire Young People's Service (SYPS).

'Having a single body responsible and accountable for Youth Policy and the Every Child matters outcomes in each area will enable integrated planning and commissioning of the full range of services for teenagers from universal activities through to more specialist and targeted support. This will lead to an integrated youth support service, focused on and structured around young people's needs and involving a wide range of providers, including voluntary and community organisations'. (Youth Matters, Para 36 DfES).

An SYPS includes the following themes:

Be child/young person centred
Have integrated leadership and management
Break down barriers between professionals delivering services to young people
Adopt a multi-agency approach
Achieve efficiencies through integrated delivery, economies of scale etc to redirect resources to frontline delivery
Develop local solutions through Children's Trusts by bringing together planning, commissioning and delivery of services
A single point of access for all services whatever the starting point of young people
A partnership approach involving schools, Further Education and Third Sector as key partners.

To find out more about Staffordshire's progression towards a SYPS click here.

The SYPS Project Board has produced a service strategy which was presented to Staffordshire County Council Cabinet of elected members on 15 October 2008. It was agreed and endorsed by members and the IYSS Board instructed to carry out the plan of work to achieve the strategy.

Staffordshire IYSS Strategy - September 2008 ( pdf 538kb)

A survey of young people was commissioned to explore issues of service accessibility and suitability and young people's preferences. The survey has produced interesting findings that will help in the development and delivery of the Youth Offer.

BMG Staffordshire IYSS Telephone Survey of Young People ( pdf

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Further information on SYPS can be found at:

www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/youthmatters/thingstodo

Staffordshire Children's Trust are not responsible for the content of external websites linked from this page.

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