School Focused Youth Service Future Development

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School Focused Youth ServiceFuture Development
David Riley Manager, Youth Services Youth
Services Youth Justice Office for Children
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Future Development

• Funding
• Current SFYS funding level is maintained
• DHS funding is recurrent
• DoE funding is committed to 30 June 2011
• 2005/06 service agreements have been rolled
  over

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Response to Key Areas for Improvement

• Key Area
• Monitoring impacts and outcomes of SFYS
• Response
• Support enhanced data collection, data analysis
  and reporting processes.
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• Reflect SFYS guideline changes in SFYS data
  collection and reporting.
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• Support the possibility of the systemic
  application of relevant existing data sources to
  enhance SFYS activities and the measurement of
  SFYS outcomes.

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Response to Key Areas for Improvement

• Key Area
• Enhanced Regional support
• Response
• Support - The development of enhanced regional
  support

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Response to Key Areas for Improvement

• Key Areas
• Support for identifying service gaps and
  responses
• Supporting community development and
  networking
• Consistency in underlying principles for
  brokerage funding
• Response
• Support the development of revised SFYS
  guidelines that aim to provide clarity and
  identify program support in relation to
• Identifying service gaps and responses,
• Brokerage funding principles and practice,
• Community development and networking
  activities.

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Response to Key Areas for Improvement

• Key Areas
• Reviewing SFYS catchments
• Reviewing auspice agencies
• Clarifying expectations of coordinator
  positions
• Consistent position description for SFYS
  coordinators
• Response
• Support the possibility of aligning of SFYS
  catchment with an existing DHS initiative such as
  Child FIRST. 
• Support the identification of common skill set
  required by SFYS co-coordinators

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Response to Key Areas for Improvement

• Key Area
• Communication strategy for the program
• Response
• Support the development of a communication
  strategy that addresses
• The role and responsibility of SFYS partners
  and advisory bodies
• Revised SFYS guidelines and implementation
  strategy
• Program data collection and reporting
  procedures
• Program support processes and resources

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Future Development

• Impacts on SFYS
• New guidelines
• Revised boundaries
• Revised budget allocation/funding formula
• Potential changes to auspice arrangements

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Next Steps
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Future Development

• Questions