Using PCC funding Redcar and Cleveland Community Safety Partnership will commission a Targeted Youth Outreach Service, utilising the Redcar and Cleveland Early Help Youth and Community Service Streetz Team in partnership with a commissioned Voluntary and Community Sector organisation. The hybrid provision will deliver a targeted street based youth outreach service with the aim of reducing youth antisocial behaviour in Redcar and Cleveland.
Redcar and Cleveland are amongst a small number of Local Authorities in the country who have retained their own youth and community service provision, and this hybrid model will enable strong existing links with strategic multi agency boards to be maintained. In addition retaining Local Authority oversight of the initiative will secure effective information sharing across Children’s Service Teams and ensure that case notes are recorded on the Early Help and Social Care case management system.
PCC funding will cover 5 hours a week each for Local Authority Lead Youth Workers in each of the three Redcar and Cleveland locality areas to provide oversight of the VCS commissioned organisation and ensure that service delivery is appropriately targeted and that information sharing systems are updated accordingly. The remaining funding will be allocated to the commissioned VCS provider.
The service will deliver a range of early intervention, diversionary and positive activities centred on assertive street based youth work, engaging with young people who are involved in, or at risk of becoming involved in antisocial behaviour activity.
The service will be intelligence led delivered in a reactive manner, providing short term interventions in antisocial behaviour hotspot locations identified by partnership information and analysis and reviewed at local multi agency meetings. The identified VCS service delivery organisation will sit on these multi agency meetings together with the Local Authority lead. A Local Authority lead will be identified to coordinate the commissioned Targeted Youth Outreach Service and report back to the OPCC on activity undertaken with PCC funding.
To allow time for the VCS element of the service to be commissioned, during the first six months of the funding period the Targeted Youth Outreach Service will be solely delivered by Redcar and Cleveland Local Authority Streetz Team. Decision 2017-30419: Funding for Targeted Youth Outreach Service in Redcar and Cleveland