Children’s Trust & Performance

Key Contacts
Richenda Broad
(Assistant Director, Children’s Trust & Performance)
(01642) 728500

Administrative Support
Chris Brickles
Personal Assistant
(01642) 728601 

Work Based Learning
Julie Broadbent
Acting Work Based Learning Manager
(01642 201936)

Children’s Trust
Lesley Spaven
Children’s Trust Manager
(01642 728080

Integrated Youth Support Service
John Keelty
Young People’s Support Manager
(01642 240081)

Adult Education Service
Rose Bickle
Adult Education Manager
(01642) 818480  

Youth Offending Service
Sandra Mitchell
Acting Head of Youth Offending Service
(01642 513013)

Voluntary Sector Development & Grants
Wendy Kelly
Voluntary Sector Liaison Manager
(01642 728079)

 

Main functions of each service area within Children’s Trust & Performance:

 

Children’s Trust

  • Children’s Trust development.
  • Children & Young People’s Plan.
  • Workforce development.
  • Customer engagement and participation.

Youth Offending Service 

  • Co-ordinating Youth Justice Services, using a case management model and integrated partnership approaches to prevent offending and reduce re-offending by young people aged 10-17 years who are subject to Final Warnings and Court Orders.

Voluntary Sector Development and Grants 

  • Developing the Council’s relationship wit the voluntary and community sector including the Compact.
  • Providing grants to voluntary and community organisations and seeking funding for projects.
  • Support young people in development projects and in the distribution and allocation of funding.

Adult Education 

  • Providing adult education courses, including Skills for Life (SfL) and ESOL courses.
  • Providing family learning courses in schools.
  • Providing courses for businesses and the council.
  • Providing UK Online courses.
  • Providing careers guidance and advice for courses and work.

Work Based Learning 

  • Offering opportunities for learning and preparation for employment for young people pre- and post- 16.
  • Offering training via apprenticeships for young people and adults aged 16-25 years.
  • Engaging with employers to support workforce development and address skills shortages.

Integrated Youth Support 

  • Working with young people aged 13-19 years to support their personal and social education, through the provision of Centre-based, outreach and project activity and through developing positive activities.
  • Providing impartial information, advice and guidance to young people aged 13-19.
  • Delivering accredited outcomes to recognise achievement by individuals.
  • Reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training when they leave school and up to the day before their 20th birthday.
  • Minimising the number of young people “not known” to IYSS.
  • Supporting vulnerable young people, including teenage parents, young offenders, young people with LDD and care leavers, to engage with mainstream provision.
  • Outdoor education centres.