Issue - meetings

Detached Youth Work Grant

Meeting: 23/07/2024 - Cabinet (Item 12)

Report of Cabinet Member for Safety and Communities

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED THAT:

1. a grant of £41,000 to The Rock is agreed, to enable the delivery of a programme of detached youth work in the period August 2024to March 2025;

2. a grant agreement with The Rock is entered into, that will set out the terms and conditions for the delivery of the detached youth work, including monitoring against agreed outcomes;

3. the delivery of the detached youth work project in monitored through the No Child Left Behind strategic board and brought back a report for consideration by Cabinet on completion of the funding period.

Minutes:

The Leader introduced the report, in the absence of the Cabinet Member for Safety and Communities, explaining the background of the Cheltenham Detached Youth Work programme. This was originally delivered by Inspire to Aspire, later passed to No Child Left Behind who, in view of ongoing concerns about young people’s mental health and wellbeing, school absence and criminal exploitation, consider it vital to continue to deliver support. With its partners, it has developed a grant pot of £47,000 for this, and the recommendation is to award it to The Rock, which offers good understanding of the needs of local young people and expertise in working with this specific cohort, together with clearly stated ambitions and details of how they will work with partners to achieve their goals.

There were no questions or comments on this item, and the recommendations were approved unanimously, as set out in the report.

RESOLVED THAT:

1. a grant of £41,000 to The Rock is agreed, to enable the delivery of a programme of detached youth work in the period August 2024 to March 2025;

2. a grant agreement with The Rock is entered into, that will set out the terms and conditions for the delivery of the detached youth work, including monitoring against agreed outcomes;