Issue - items at meetings - Commissioning Strategy for Youth and Connexions

Report of the Director of Children’s Services (copy attached).

1.       That the strategy be noted and approved.

39.1    The Board considered the report of the Director of Children’s Services regarding the Commissioning Strategy for Youth and Connexions, which set out the commissioning strategy for providing an Integrated Youth Support Service in Brighton & Hove (for copy see minute book).

39.2    The Board welcomed the report and congratulated officers for its clarity. 

39.3    Councillor Fryer noted that the aims listed in the appendix were more positive than the 5 Core Indicators utilised to measure results and she hoped that, in future, we would be aspiring to the more positive indicators.

39.4    The Assistant Director, West Area and Youth Support confirmed that officers were optimistic that more positives would be achieved through further Performance Indicators measurements.

39.5    RESOLVED – That the Strategy be noted and approved.