HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Decision Report

1. Executive Summary

1.1. The purpose of this paper is to seek endorsement of the Find your Talent-PUSH Delivery Plan 2009/10 - for which Hampshire County Council is the accountable body (agreed Recreation & Heritage Decision Day 11 September 2008)

1.2. This paper seeks to

· set out the background to the Find your Talent-PUSH programme;

· consider the finance for the project and the impact on the budget;

· highlights the impact the project has made on the performance of the County Council

· briefly considers the future direction of the project.

2. Contextual information

2.1. Find your Talent is a national pathfinder programme jointly sponsored by the Departments for Culture, Media and Sport and The Department for Children, Schools and Families. A bid - developed by a partnership of the County Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council to act as one of the 10 pathfinders in the country - was successfully submitted and accepted with an indicative budget of £2,000,050 for the three year programme.

2.2. Hampshire County Council agreed at its meeting on 11 September 2008, to act as the accountable body

2.3. The plan for the second year (2009/10) was submitted by the Find your Talent-PUSH Partnership Steering Group and has been approved by the national body responsible for the management and delivery for the programme as a whole, Creativity, Culture, Education (CCE)

2.4 In the PUSH region (Partnership for Urban South Hampshire), the Find your Talent Pathfinder has a priority for work with children and young people (aged 0 to 19) - and their families - in out-of-school time, and for particular parts of PUSH where access to cultural opportunities has been limited.

2.5 The 09/10 plan is being delivered through four interlinked strands:

· Awareness and Advocacy

· Experiences

· Progression and transition

· Cultural Leadership

And through three principal programme mechanisms:

· Area Programme Funds

· Strategic (cross-PUSH ) programmes

· Youth Advisory Panel programmes

2.6 The programme is focused on providing access to an additional 3 hours per week activity beyond the curriculum, that grows out of and complements core entitlement. Local needs are catered for - particularly through the Area Programme Funds - but where there are clear opportunities to meet a common need across the region, then wider and larger programmes have been developed, increasing value for money and economies of scale (the Strategic Programmes).

2.7 Placing young people's voice at the heart of the programme and embedding clear progression routes for participants are key to the ethos and delivery of the programme (Youth Advisory Panel programmes).

3. Finance

3.1. An amount of £810,000 has been allocated by CCE for the Find your Talent-PUSH 09/10 Plan which matches the proposal put forward in the submission.

3.2. This will be paid in 4 quarterly instalments - triggered by the meeting of the reporting requirements as laid out by CCE

4. Performance

4.1. The 0809 Find your Talent-PUSH plan delivered some 50 taster projects, workshops and activities to some 1500 children, young people and their families right across the PUSH region;

4.2 The FYT-PUSH 09/10 plan contains a detailed programme of work. While each programme and project is a discrete area of work, this fits within a co-ordinated and joined up framework (the overall `umbrella' plan) which creates links, synergies and cross references between and across many of the individual projects.

4.3 These individual projects therefore are part of a larger whole, feeding into, informing, supporting and being supported by each other. (e.g. connections between the Youth Advisory Panels - the Youth Fund - the CYP led projects - the Artswork mentoring programme - the Artswork Arts Award Programme - the young people led-media work with Express FM - the Creative and media diploma work - the Young decision makers in the construction and built environment project -and so on - see outline plan in Appendix 1)

5. Other key issues

5.1. The Find Your Talent-PUSH Plan 09/10 places an emphasis on the development of cultural leadership by children and young people. This will build capacity across the PUSH area, thus forming part of the longer term legacy. This includes training for early years workers, to cultural management training for young people and those who work with them, to training of arts award advisers, to empowering real leadership and decision making powers for young people themselves. The work with the new 14 -19 diplomas links into professional development and learning in new and diverse ways including the investigation of the building of progression routes from Arts Award to other forms of accredited learning; the development of work apprenticeships and placements makes real links and progression routes to employment. Furthermore, the work with DADA South will facilitate equality of access for disabled young people.

5.2. The Steering Group believes the Find your Talent Team has developed a sound programme of work which will not only deliver dynamic work for children, young people and their families but which will also deliver a coherent and joined up programme of work across the whole.

6. Future direction

6.1. The capacity building strands of the 09/10 Plan are a way of ensuring a sustainable legacy from the Find your Talent Programme

6.2. It is essential that the learning and outcomes from the Programme inform policy and planning development by partners, local authorities and other stakeholders and the implementation of those plans - including the Cultural Olympiad.

6.3. The Steering Group needs to ensure that future planning is not only informed by project outcomes but also by the voices, views, thoughts and activities of children and young people who have participated in the three-year programme. Capturing those voices is a key area of work for the next two years as well as working with partners to ensure these inform longer term policy making.

7. Recommendation

7.1. That the Executive Member for Culture, Communities and Rural Affairs endorses the Find your Talent-PUSH Plan for 2009/10 and approves the spending of the budget as laid out.

CORPORATE OR LEGAL INFORMATION:

Links to the Corporate Strategy

Other Significant Links

IMPACT ASSESSMENTS:

1. Equalities Impact Assessment:

1.1. An Equalities Impact Assessment has been undertaken but it is important to understand that this programme is predicated on countering disadvantage and the team is working to ensure that all programmes and activities address equality of access, participation and leadership opportunities

1.2. A further programme of work will be undertaken in the drafting and delivery of the 10/11 Plan in order to continue this good work

2. Impact on Crime and Disorder:

2.1. YT-PUSH is working with a range of partners including the Wessex Youth Offending Team and Pupil Referral Units as well as with Positive Activities for Young People. Providing high quality cultural programmes will work alongside other interventions supporting diversionary activities and providing progressions routes for young people .

3. Climate Change:

a) How does what is being proposed impact on our carbon footprint / energy consumption?

It has been considered and there are none

b) How does what is being proposed consider the need to adapt to climate change, and be resilient to its longer term impacts?

It has been considered and there are none