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Arrival, refreshments and exhibitor viewing
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Welcome and introduction
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POLICY Youth Matters: moving from co-design to delivery
This session will provide an update on the implementation and delivery of Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy, including progress against key priorities and how the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is working to implement the three big shifts: from national to local; fragmented to collaborative; and excluded to empowered.
Speaker
Head of Be Seen & Heard and Strategic Projects Youth Team,
Civil Society and Youth, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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POLICY From strategy to system change: building the conditions for great youth work
One year on from the launch of the National Youth Strategy, this keynote will reflect on how the sector has responded and the key lessons from the National Youth Agency’s work through the Local Youth Transformation Programme, Peer Reviews, and wider consultancy support. It will explore:
It will explore:
• How policy change can act as a driver for investment in workforce development and support local authorities to fulfil their statutory duty
• How local authorities and youth work organisations can develop high-quality youth work to demonstrate impact
• What conditions are needed to nurture stronger partnerships between the statutory and voluntary sectors
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Refreshments and exhibitor viewing
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FUNDING Better youth spaces? Insights from the government’s capital funding
The Department of Culture Media and Sport’s delivery partner, Social Investment Business will share lessons from Better Youth Spaces, the first phase of capital investment outlined in the National Youth Strategy.
They will discuss:
• What the evidence shows about the condition and availability of youth services and centres in England.
• How funding from phase one of the programme has been allocated and the rationale underpinning that.
• Insights on the next phase of the programme, including the areas and issues government might prioritise.
Speakers
BREAKOUT SESSIONS (choose A, B or C)
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Workshop A: YOUTH EMPLOYMENT What works to improve youth employment outcomes and how delivery partners can put evidence it into action
Presentation
Learn how the Youth Futures Foundation developed and updated its first Youth Employment Toolkit, drawing together learning from a large-scale analysis of international data and translating these into a UK-relevant context. This session will also share key lessons from their Evidence into Action programme, highlighting how practitioners can effectively embed high-quality evidence effectively into the design and delivery of youth employment programmes.
Speakers
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Workshop B: INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Presentation
Speaker TBC
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Workshop C: YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE - Trialling the youth guarantee – the story so far
Presentation
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Lunch and exhibitor viewing
Break
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YOUTH HUBS Young Futures Hubs and connecting the youth system
Presentation
A key Labour manifesto pledge, Young Futures Hubs bring together a wide range of youth support services under one roof. The government has committed to opening 50 hubs over the next four years and has funded the creation of eight early adopter sites to test different approaches. In this session, one of those early adopter areas, Brighton and Hove set out how they have developed their approach.
It will cover:
• The joint-agency nature of Young Futures Hubs and how to get partner buy in.
• Challenges that have emerged, how these were overcome and the initial wins.
• Advice on pitfalls and how to avoid them for areas still to develop their hubs.
Speakers
BREAKOUT SESSIONS (choose D,E or F)
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Workshop D: YOUTH VIOLENCE Seeing the child behind the violence
Presentation
This session challenges the idea serious youth violence can be tackled by focusing on behaviour alone, instead highlighting the drivers - trauma, fear and identity - that shape young people’s experiences and make them vulnerable to harm. Drawing on Safer London’s work with some of the most at-risk children and young people in London, two practitioners and a young person from their participation programme will share what it really takes to support those most at risk.
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Workshop E: QUALIFICATIONS
Presentation
This session will introduce the National Youth Agency’s new Standard Qualification Framework and outline its contribution to the goal of achieving more youth workers in the workforce, who are better equipped and professionally recognised. It will also cover the new 7 Essentials framework for the youth sector and plans to improve the infrastructure of youth work training.
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Workshop F: EQUALITY Improving the experiences of young people from Black and minoritised backgrounds in accessing youth provision
Presentation
UK Youth’s Young Changemakers programme supported young people from Black and Black mixed-race communities to use their lived experiences to tackle racial injustices in mental health support and services. This session, led by Young Changemakers, will explore some of the key messages and lessons learned from the programme.
UK Youth
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Refreshments and exhibitor viewing
Break
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DEBATE How do we make the youth strategy work for all young people?
Presentation
The Youth Matters strategy promises to strengthen youth services and the workforce and deliver much-needed provision for young people. But how do we ensure new support and services are available to all – including those young people who often find it harder to access the help they need? This panel debate will explore:
• The challenges in ensuring the most vulnerable benefit from the strategy’s aims.
• Whether there is sufficient funding to deliver the strategy’s ambitions.
• The vital role young people will play in ensuring national measures deliver change in local communities.
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Sum-up and close of conference