Decision details

To provide a youth strategy that provides safe, creative, ambitious, Community Youth Services where Young Sheffielders thrive.

To approve the ‘live’ Community Youth Strategy 2022-25 as a statement of the Council’s strategic approach to Community Youth Services.

Implementing a city-wide Community Youth Strategy is timely and it captures the high-level strategic aims with relation to Youth Services and provides clarity and direction for the service.

This is a live and evolving strategy until 2025 that will be monitored by the youth partnership board and will be actioned through an annual service (partnership) delivery plan, this will be established and monitored with quarterly action plans and reports that feed into the partnership ensuring that the views of all partners and stakeholders, including young people, continue to shape the delivery of Community Youth Services into the future.

That the Leader of the Council approves the Community Youth Strategy, attached to the report, as a statement of the Council’s strategic approach to Youth Services.

Implementing a city-wide Community Youth strategy is timely for the reasons described in the report. It captures the high-level strategic aims with relation to Youth Services and provides clarity and direction for the service.

This is a live and evolving strategy until 2025 that will be monitored by the youth partnership board and will be actioned through an annual service (partnership) delivery plan.  This will be established and monitored with quarterly action plans and reports that feed into the partnership ensuring that the views of all partners and stakeholders, including young people, continue to shape the delivery of Community Youth Services into the future.

The ‘do nothing’ option would be to not have a Community Youth Strategy in place. The strategy gives the opportunity to capture, in one place, the plan and direction for the city in relation to Community Youth Services.