Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles

RESOLVED THAT

1. the allocation of positive activities funding as set out in appendix 2 be agreed.

2. Authority be delegated to the Strategy and Engagement Manager, in consultation with the Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles, to award the remaining funds to projects to deliver youth activities.

The Cabinet Member Sport and Culture introduced the report and explained that for the fourth year running, Gloucestershire County Council had agreed to invest £50 k in each of the 6 Gloucestershire districts in 2014-15 to support positive activities for young people, to be delivered by voluntary and community sector organisations. CBC led the allocation process although as part of its commitment to working in partnership with others, it sought advice and support from the Positive Participation Partnership and the Positive Lives Partnership.

Four priorities had been identified for the 2014 round as outlined in paragraph 1.3. This year the County Council had indicated that up to £5000 of the £50 000 pot could be used to develop and improve the quality of voluntary and community sector organisations as providers of youth activities and to that end it was proposed that up to £5000 would be allocated towards making training opportunities more accessible for volunteers, workers and members of management committees and embedding safeguarding into the work of VCS youth work providers and into their youth work provision.

The Cabinet Member also informed Members of a smaller pot of funding to enable providers of youth activities, schools and colleges get better at helping their young people lead healthy lives.

RESOLVED THAT

1. the allocation of positive activities funding as set out in appendix 2 be agreed.

2. Authority be delegated to the Strategy and Engagement Manager, in consultation with the Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles, to award the remaining funds to projects to deliver youth activities.