Partnerships
SVSYF are committed to partnership working to support Youth Project Managers, skill up practitioners and enhance services for the best outcomes for young people. Some of our work is outlined below.
Networking
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Outcomes |
Comments |
| Aprill 2011 |
“Effective networking for busy projects and people” - Speed Networking Event |
A690 YI, CommIT, Sunderland Cares center, NECA, Spark FM, Family and Parenting Team, Arts Center Washington, Youth Information shop, VCAS, Tyne and Wear Museums, YMCA Weardale House |
51 delegates from 30 organisations |
Link to the page |
Consultation / Participation
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Outcomes |
Comments |
| April 2011 - Ongoing |
What’s on Where for young people |
Safer Sunderland Partnership and Youth Development Group |
SVSYF collated information from 70 organisations delivering youth work sessions across the city. PDF WOW leaflets with contact details have been developed for distribution and a booklet containing detailed information of individual sessions is a/v to download from our website (This booklet is aimed at practitioners and will be updated on a regular basis) |
download WOW leaflets
download SVSYF wow booklet |
| Dec 2010 - Ongoing |
Youth Voice |
Youth Almighty Project |
Ongoing |
Report coming soon |
| May 2011 |
SVSYF Feasibility study |
Jane Wheeler, Childrens services |
Feasibility Reports produced with reccomendations for SVSYF Trustees to consider exploring becoming a childrens Y.Ps forum |
Report |
| Feb 2011 |
Hendon Youth Initiative (HYI) |
HYPP / YAV / Sans St |
Report produced containing yp + families views regarding services produced by HYI + perceptions of the local area |
For more info contact R. Duggan 5537717 |
| Sept 10 - Sept 2011 |
Young Peoples Voices |
YAP |
Reports produced to monitor and evaluated services proived by YAP |
Report Year 2
Report Detached YW |
| October 2010 |
E-consultation training strategic group |
RIEP |
Working with Corporate Consultation group lead, YDG, Community IT, Blake Stevenson consultants and colleagues from South Tyneside regarding e-consultation training programme for council officers, councilors and partners. |
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| September 2010 |
Youthinc 5 |
Youth Development Group and Sunderland Youth Parliament |
Online and focus groups consultation with Young people aged 13 – 19 yrs, councilors, Managers and practitioners to help inform decisions by Sunderland City Council in relation to Youth Service priorities and its future spending requirements. |
Report prepared by YDG – contact Michael Elsy for more details |
Digital Youth Work
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Outcomes |
Comments |
| April 2011 |
Exhibition (City Library) |
VOME |
Exhibition of work achieved by partners and VOME from 2010/2011 |
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| June 2011 |
SkillShare |
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Roadshow aimed at practitioners. Practical help to use new tools |
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| Sept 21st 2011 |
Inter- Connected generation London |
Youth work on-line/ Katie Bacon |
8 Practicioners from 8 days took part in a multi-agency conference discussing Digital Youth Work. Amanda Gerry delivered a presentation of the findings of SVSYF research on Social Media. Download |
Guest Blog |
| Sept-Oct 2011 |
Action Learning Sets 1-8 |
Community IT |
Practicioner from VCS/Local Authority Organisations attended 8 practical workshops |
Link |
| Nov 11 |
ALS Newcastle Regional Event |
NCVS/Community IT |
Practicioner from NC attended full day practical Social Medial Media workshop |
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| 14th July 2011 |
Youth Work in a digital Age NE conference |
VOME/Community IT/ PAG / A690/ Media Savvy / YAP / HYPP / SSCB / Sunderland University |
Organised by SVSYF and attended by over 100 practicioners and young people attended the North Easts 1st ever Digital Youth Work conference at Sunderland University. |
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| 7th December 2010 |
Engaging with young people on-line |
VOME – Visualization and other Methods of Engagement (Universities of Royal Holloway, Salford and Cranfield) |
8 youth work practitioners (all members of SVSYF) invited to British Museum, London to participate and contribute to discussions regarding issues around consent, privacy when engaging with young people on-line |
visit VOME website
download flyer |
| May 2011 |
ICT equipment and on-line technology guidelines for voluntary sector youth providers |
Community IT and youth Development Group Quality Assurance Team |
We are busy developing good practice guidelines including Getting involved in Social Media and similar on-line technologies for our members to use, amend or adopt. |
These guidelines should be complete by march 2011 – we will upload them here, keep checking back! |
| ongoing |
Digital technology |
St Roberts Community learning centre, VOME, Community IT |
We are busy exploring new technologies that may be useful in our work with young people especially those that are NEET |
We will keep you updated in our news section |
Policies and Procedures
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Comments |
| July 2011 |
Safeguarding Audit - Toolki |
YDG QA team + 14-19 Partnership |
Only available to SVSYF Members.
Link |
| October 2010 |
Code of conduct for Trustees |
Project Managers from 9 youth work organisations across the city. |
download |
| October 2010 |
Ethical code of practice for research / consultation with children and young people |
Edinburgh University. |
download |
| ongoing |
What is youth work? |
Sunderland Youth Development Group (Training Team) |
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Curriculum Development
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Comments |
| ongoing |
Accrediting the youth work curriculum |
ASDAN (North East Regional Team) |
SVSYF Coordinate a network of youth work organisations using ASDAN short courses to accredit the work young people take part in “outside of school”. In 2009/10 422 young people accredited 8120 hours of learning outside of the classroom |
Quality Assurance
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Outcomes |
Comments |
| Ongoing |
14-19 Kitemark |
Nexus Consultancy |
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| Aug 11- Ongoing |
Anti Bullying Charter Mark |
City of Sunderland YDG QA team |
After Successful pilot in 2011 involving PAG / A690 / YAP / YMCA HB. ABCM has now been rolled out to other organisations in 2012. Guidelines have been produced to help oganisations gain the Charter mark and training including E-learning, |
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| July 2011 |
Safeguarding Toolkit |
City of Sunderland Youth Development Group & Education Safeguarding Team |
In accordance with new OFSTED legislation for projects working with young people off school site we are developing a toolkit that projects will work through to ensure all policies, procedures and guidelines are up to date and comply with new legislation |
Once completed this toolkit will be available (along with template policies and procedures) to download by our members. This should be complete by April 2011 |
Training
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Outcomes |
Comments |
| Ongoing |
Drugs and alcohol awareness training |
YDAP |
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| Jan 2012 |
Delay Training |
NECA and |
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| 2011 |
SHOWT/ C Card |
SVSYF/ Children Services |
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| 2011 |
Chlamiydia Training |
NECA |
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| 2011 |
Quality Standards |
Children England |
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| 2011 |
Designation persons training |
SSCB/ YDG |
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| 2011 |
Employment issues, managing redundancy and equality legislation |
Sintons Solicitors |
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| 2011 |
Redundancy information session |
Sintons Solicitors |
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| December 2010 |
Behaviour management Training |
Springwell Dene School and Extended School Cluster manager |
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| November 2010 |
Short Courses |
ASDAN |
12 Practitioners from HYPP, SHYNE and WYFC took part in a twilight training sessions to enable them to accredit their youth work curriculum. |
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| ongoing |
Brief Intervention Training (Alcohol) |
NECA |
Youth work organisations offered FREE one day training to enable them |
download leaflet |
| ongoing |
Safeguarding E-Learning |
City of Sunderland Safeguarding Team |
FREE on-line training offered to all managers, practitioners, volunteers and management committee members regarding safeguarding (we are prompting this as an example of good practice to ensure everyone undertakes this training as part of induction of CPD) |
further information and registration |
| ongoing |
Information sharing - E-learning |
Sunderland Children's Services |
FREE on-line training offered to all managers, practitioners, volunteers and management committee members regarding how, why, and who to share information. |
further information and registration |
| ongoing |
Health Training Needs Audit |
PCT, Regional Chlamydia Screening programme, NECA & Washington Mind. |
FREE on-line training is available: Chlamydia training, Chlamydia refresher training; NECA Brief intervention training (alcohol); SHOWT / C Card; Smoking Cessation; Youth Mental Health 1st Aid. |
further information and registration |
Workforce Development
| Date |
Item |
in Partnership with.... |
Outcomes |
| Sept 10 |
Health Training Needs Audit |
Washington Mind, Regional Chlamydia Screening Team, South of Tyne & Wear PCT, NECA. |
Audit of sector needs regarding training in the areas of Chlamydia Screening, Youth mental Health 1st Aid, Brief Intervention Alcohol Training etc |
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