Glossary
Background information on each of the delivery mechanisms
Preston Community Safety Partnership
Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) are statutory partnerships of organisations who work together in an area to reduce:
- Crime
- Anti-social behaviour
- Drug misuse
- Reoffending
CSPs prepare strategic assessments and deliver Partnership Plans (Preston Combined Partnership and Serious Violence Plan 2021-2025).
CSPs also work collaboratively with other partnerships and organisations, including the third sector.
The following responsible authorities make up Preston CSP:
- Preston City Council
- Lancashire County Council
- Lancashire Constabulary
- Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
- Probation Service
- Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group
The partnership has a shared understanding of community safety issues affecting individuals, families and communities in the city. This has been strengthened by the latest, consultation and analysis, including the latest strategic assessment.
Preparing a strategic assessment is a requirement for all 14 district CSPs in Lancashire to identify community safety issues in the county and provide a profile for each district to aid local, strategic decision making.
Preston Youth Forum
Preston Youth Forum is an informal network of 69 organisations who provide services for young people in the city. Organisations include those from both the public and third sector.
The network meets approximately 4 times per year with the purpose of sharing information on local services and funding opportunities, exploring joint working opportunities and exploring emerging national and local trends concerning young people.
The Youth Forum is currently Chaired by Preston City Council. The Youth Forum will adopt the priorities of the Preston's Youth Strategy and will strongly advocate for young people within decision making processes in the city.
The Lancashire Skills & Employment Framework
The Skills and Employment Board was established in 2013 and it considers skills and employment priorities within Lancashire; which includes the areas supported by Lancashire County Council, Blackburn with Darwen Unitary Authority and Blackpool Unitary Authority.
The Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub are a strategic team of experienced professionals, who are the engine behind the Skills and Employment Board supporting them and enabling a balanced, skilled and inclusive labour market which underpins and contributes to economic well-being and growth across Lancashire.
The team have developed an evidence base to help identify skills and employment issues across Lancashire. This evidence base, alongside consultation with stakeholders, has been used to develop a Lancashire Skills and Employment Strategic Framework, which underpins everything that the Team does.
The Strategic Framework sets out the skills and employment priorities for Lancashire and the team work in partnership with a wide range of partners and stakeholders both in Preston and across the county to achieve the objectives set out in the framework.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Partnerships
An integrated care partnership (or ICP) is a group of partners in a geographical area working together to address the health, social care and public health needs of their communities. Always making sure the public's voice is at the heart of decision making.
Partners include local authorities, NHS organisations, businesses, education, Healthwatch and voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations.
As part of the Health and Social Care Act 2022, NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the unitary and upper tier local authorities hold a statutory duty to coordinate Lancashire and South Cumbria ICP together.
The integrated care strategy sets out the priority areas that will be the focus to improve the health and wellbeing of our residents, and to make sure that the health and care services are more joined up and easier to access.
The strategy has been written by a partnership of different organisations across Lancashire and South Cumbria, including local government, the NHS, Healthwatch, organisations from local business and education, and voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise groups.
Youth Participation
What is youth participation?
(Credit: Contribution from Lancashire County Council - Children and Young People's Participation Strategy)
Definition
Opportunities to take part, express views in decisions that affect young people, be listened to, understood and have views taken into account.
Commitment to participation
Our commitment is led by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Our aim is to have effective and meaningful participation which is an ongoing process that is developed together rather than a one-off activity. Participation can be individual, operational or strategic.
Article 12 states that every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them and to have their views considered and taken seriously.
Article 23 states that a child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far as possible, independence and to play an active part in their community.
Clarity on key language and definitions
Consultative practices
Adults seek views of young people, but it may be that some ideas are not taken on board in the outcome (the possibility of which should be explained at the beginning of the process).
Co-production or Collaborative practices
Adults work in partnership with young people but the initial idea usually comes from the adult. The approach recognises the skills, strengths and experiences of young people are valuable.
Young people led practices
Young people have the idea or raise the issue and adults then support them to develop projects and activities that young people think are important.
Defining 'Youth Work'
Over the years 'youth work' has tended to be a contested idea. However, for the sake of this strategy here are some key principles that if they are present in a piece of work can mean that youth work is taking place.
It is important to know the difference between working with young people and the profession of 'youth work'.
Bernard Davies, a nationally known youth service historian, wrote a 'Youth Work - A Manifesto for Our Time' published by Youth and Policy and supported by the NYA. In his manifesto Davies reflects on youth work since the 1960's and summarises what elements make up good youth work practice.
Below is a paraphrase of this work:
PRINCIPLE | MEANING | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is the practice taking place in settings which are 'open access' and to which young people have chosen to come, that is, is their participation voluntary? | Free association is an important plank of youth work. Young people must choose to be involved, and that choice needs to be respected. It's also important that all young people are welcome. |
| 2 | Is the practice proactively seeking to tip balances of power in their favour? | Adults tend to have a lot of power and so they have to try to enable young people to make decision, to be taken seriously and even allowed to make mistakes. Adults should be respecting young people and their perspectives |
| 3 | Are young people perceived and received as young people rather than, as a requirement, through the filter of adult-imposed labels? | Adolescence is a time of trying things, taking risks and discovering who they are. Adults that work with them need to be non-judgemental and have a high degree of empathy. They need a safe space in which to grow |
| 4 | Is the practice starting where young people are starting, particularly with their expectation that they will be able to relax, meet friends and enjoy themselves? | Starting where young people are is to accept that they are a work in progress and that listening, non-judgemental adults can guide them beyond their starting point. This is part of the process that is educational- learning about life. |
| 5 | Is one key focus of the practice on the young person as an individual? | Whilst very often young people are in groups each one is unique and has unique needs. This means youth work is a balance between the group and the individual |
| 6 | Is the practice respectful of and actively responsive to young people's peer networks? | Peer groups are of vital importance for young people. Youth work needs to take into account friendship and peer groups. |
| 7 | Is the practice respectful of and actively responsive to young people's wider community and cultural identities and, where young people choose, is it seeking to help them strengthen these? | Identity is an important part of the journey through adolescence. It shapes beliefs, belonging and confidence. Affirming these identities and not judging is crucial for the long term health of an individual. |
| 8 | Is the practice seeking to go beyond where young people start, in particular, by encouraging them to develop their personal potential and be critical and creative in their responses to their experience and the world around them? | Young people are full of potential, and it is the role of youth work to liberate this. Self-belief, confidence and self-acceptance are important goals for adolescent development and can be helped by experiencing acceptance by adults. |
| 9 | Is the practice concerned with how young people feel as well as with what they know and can do? | In a world of testing, achieving and social media success, youth work seeks to listen to how young people are feeling and validating those feeling. This can help with selfunderstanding and self-worth. |
Review Period of the Strategy
Annually
Consultation through existing consultation.
Every 3 Years
Review Delivery.
Every 3 Years
Review Strategic Vision, Objectives and Outcomes.