Achieve Economic Wellbeing The Young Southwark partnership is responsible for ensuring children and young people in borough meet the five Every Child Matters outcomes. The information below sets out the agenda for 'achieve economic wellbeing'.
What is meant by 'achieve economic wellbeing'?
- Engage in further education, employment or training on leaving school
- Ready for employment
- Live in decent homes and sustainable communities
- Access to transport and material goods
- Live in households free from low income
- Parents, carers and families are supported to be economically active
Priorities for Southwark
- Reducing those not in education, employment or training (NEET)
Other areas for development are
- To improve range of providers and developments in line with findings of early years review and childcare sufficiency audit
- To continue to identify and overcome barriers for lone parents returning to work including hard to reach
- To improve range of work-based placements available for young people
- To improve housing provision for those most vulnerable, particularly those in temporary accommodation and young homeless
- To improve post 16 provision for those with special educational needs and children with disabilities or learning difficulties with a focus on improving provision available in mainstream post 16 settings
What have we achieved so far?
- Good programmes of support across the borough which are enabling local families
- A wide network of support to enable parents to go back to work including an effective family information service, quality childcare places, and targeted support for vulnerable groups
- A strong and collaborative 14 to 19 forum which continues to enable young people in the borough to have access to a wide range of well constructed and flexible pathways for learning and preparation for a working life
- Reduction in NEETs and improvements in staying on rates
- Regeneration programmes offering real opportunities to improve life chances of children, young people and families, that consider their views in development
- Improvements in housing provision and support for families and young people, including targeted support for those most in need
- Good support for care leavers in preparation for independence including targeted support for those most in need
Services on offer to support children and young people to achieve economic wellbeing
For full papers from our meetings, please contact us at the address below.
For more information about our work in this area, go to our 'achieve economic wellbeing' case study.
Contact
Young Southwark
Tel: 020 7525 3863
Fax: 020 7525 3777
young.southwark@southwark.gov.uk
Young Southwark
Mabel Goldwin House
49 Grange Walk
London
SE1 3DY |
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