Integrated Services(Children, Young People And Families)

Research review: Improving outcomes for young people by spreading and deepening the impact of targeted youth support and development

by Alison O'Mara-Eves

Suggested citation:
O’Mara, A. J., Jamal, F., Lehmann, A., & Cooper, C. (2010). Research review: Improving outcomes for young people by spreading and deepening the impact of targeted youth support and development. London: Centre for Excellence and Outcomes.

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This research review aims to improve understanding of targeted youth... more [Extract from "Summary"]

This research review aims to improve understanding of targeted youth support (TYS) services by evaluating the evidence on:

• eligibility and uptake of TYS services
• the impact of TYS on desirable outcomes
• the facilitators and barriers to effective TYS services.

The review also looks at the available evidence on cost-effectiveness of TYS programmes. It is based on a rapid review of the research literature, involving systematic searching and analysis of key data. It summarises the best available evidence to help service providers improve services and, ultimately, outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Young Voices - An Applied Theatre Method Aiming to Bridge the Gap Between Youth and Adults

by yiota demetriou

Thesis for MA by Research at SANM - University of Hull, 2010-2011

This dissertation focuses on an applied theatre project, Young Voices that has attempted to develop a method, which... more This dissertation focuses on an applied theatre project, Young Voices that has attempted to develop a method, which inquires how performance forms can facilitate youth inclusion. Issues related to young people have been discussed extensively throughout time and within many disciplines. Stanley Cohen (1972), J.J Arnett (1999), Sharon Nichols and Thomas Good (2004) and Monica Barry (2005), have examined the ‘anxieties’ that are often associated with the perceived image of young people in society and how these may often lead to their social exclusion. This method is to be used by youth workers with their role as ‘intercessors’ between young people and the adults that surround them (i.e. their parents, guardians, teachers); it adopts Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) ethos, uses elements of his Forum Theatre (FT) workshop techniques and the theory/technique of verbatim theatre. The project’s research process is in the form of applied and verbatim theatre workshops; performance presentation and a performance lecture addressed to youth workers. The method looks at increasing and facilitating communication between various isolated adolescent groups through applied theatre using various ‘Boalian’ workshop techniques and FT to identify the participants ‘oppressions’. It intends at facilitating communication through applied theatre and verbatim theatre between youth and youth workers, by capturing the participants ‘oppressions’ and presenting them to an audience of their peers and youth workers. And it aims at facilitating communication through the combination of applied theatre and verbatim theatre with the attempt of beginning to bridge the gap amongst young people and the adults around them, through a recommended step by suggesting the involvement of the participant’s surrounding adults. The Young Voices method has been developed from the collaboration of several youth groups from around Scarborough and its district. The complete process attempts to assist teenagers in discussing their concerns from their own perspectives towards empowering them and raising awareness about how their opinions should be required for matters that concern them.

Consider reform within HSE before setting up Child Care Agency

by Fergal Landy

Creative Apprenticeships & Future Jobs Fund: An analysis of stakeholder experiences

by Luke Dickens

This report centres on a stakeholder analysis of the Creative Apprenticeship and the Future Jobs Fund schemes.... more This report centres on a stakeholder analysis of the Creative Apprenticeship and the Future Jobs Fund schemes. Discussion is based upon five in-depth interviews with Youth Music Action Zone (YMAZ) directors and managers about the key benefits and challenges of their participation in the schemes.

The report also makes a series of recommendations for what Youth Music and wider policy making circles might now consider in light of the research findings. The report will be of use to those implementing (or thinking about implementing) similar employment offers to young people in the music and wider creative sectors.

Imaginary epistemic objects in integrated children’s services

by Steve Brown

Draft pre-publication version of Brown, S.D., with Daniels, H., Edwards, A., Leadbetter, J., Martin, D., Middleton, D., Warmington, P., Apostolov, A., & Popova, A. (2009) Imaginary epistemic objects in integrated children’s services. Society and Business Review ISSN 1746-5680, 4(1), 58-68

Purpose: The paper describes the problem of achieving ‘organizational justice’ for children within integrated... more Purpose: The paper describes the problem of achieving ‘organizational justice’ for children within integrated children’s services. Justice is understood, following Byers & Rhodes discussion of Levinas as respecting the ‘unique and indivisible’ character of a given child.
Approach: The empirical material reported here is drawn from a large study of interagency working in children’s services in the UK. Data is taken from Developmental Work Research sessions. Methodological details are outlined in Daniels et al (2007) and Leadbetter et al (2007).
Findings: The key finding discussed here is that in order to balance the outcome measures used in children’s services, participants use a further abstraction ‘the outcome of improved outcomes’. The logical and practical consequences of this abstraction are analysed.
Originality/Value: The paper offers an empirically grounded contribution to conceptual debates about Otherness and ethics in organization. In particular it argues that a concern for the Other need not preclude a high level of concrete categorization and minute target setting. The Philosophical debate is seen to be ‘resolved’ in practice

Racism and Young People in the United Kingdom

by Momodou Sallah

Co-authored with Rod Dacombe