The Staffordshire Youth Offer

The Staffordshire Youth Offer is the statement of the Staffordshire Integrated Youth Support Service (IYSS) about the services and support young people aged 8-25 years can expect to be available to them (delivered directly to 13-19 year olds with some services and support for 8-13 year olds and up to 25 year olds where necessary and appropriate).

The Youth Offer sets a baseline with regard to the standard young people should expect from the services and support. It takes the key challenges and responses (delivery strands) presented by Youth Matters (2005) and the demographics and needs of the Staffordshire youth population and presents an Offer that will ensure opportunities to meet the Staffordshire IYSS core purpose:

To put Staffordshire's young people on the road to success by enhancing and transforming their life chances

Staffordshire is taking a 'learning', 'living' and 'lifestyle' themed approach in its Youth Offer. These themes bring together the Youth Matters challenges and responses and encompass the Every Child Matters (ECM) outcomes. The themes also give a straight forward message to professionals, young people and their families regarding the purpose of the Youth Offer, i.e. to achieve the best possible outcomes for young people's learning, living and lifestyle.

The Staffordshire IYSS is taking a tiered approach to building the Youth Offer with regard to detail about service and support provision and delivery. This document sets out a County-wide Youth Offer which is an Offer Framework upon which to build at a District and Borough level. This will ensure that services and support offered to young people will truly reflect and respond to the demographics and needs of young people at a local level.

The Staffordshire IYSS Youth Offer has been produced. The Youth Offer outlines the IYSS standards and offer of services and support that Staffordshire's young people should expect.

pdf Staffordshire County IYSS Youth Offer (1.36mb)

Further information on IYSS can be found at:

www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/youthmatters/thingstodo

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Staffordshire Youth Offer: To put Staffordshire's young people on the road to success by enhancing and transforming their life chances.

Last Modified: 01/05/2009 14:39:20
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