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Craig Jones

Business Plan

Youth Sport and Art Initiative

Project Aim: The aims of the project are to reduce youth offending, drug and alcohol misuse, social and economic disparities and to increase regular participation in sport, physical activity and creative interventions, by creating more vibrant, active, safe and healthy neighbourhoods for young people within the County of Monmouthshire. This will be achieved threefold. Firstly by re-engaging and addressing the most disadvantaged excluded young people, aged 8-18 years, by encouraging the young people to become actively involved in sports and arts as opposed to anti-social behaviour. To increase regular participation and lifelong involvement in a diverse range of sports, arts, educational and training activities and opportunities. The sports and arts packages will involve intensive educational inclusion programmes based upon issues of importance to include drugs, alcohol, racism, crime, health and nutrition. As a means to reducing anti-social offending behaviour, crime, drug and alcohol misuse, in the local communities and increasing the opportunities for young people. To address social exclusion by encouraging young people and local communities to work together for the benefit of themselves and the community that they live in. Secondly by providing support, deliver and create access to education, training and employment skill development programmes and opportunities to improve the quality of life and to develop skills of local residents and young people in deprived communities to enable them to gain and develop skills to enter the labour market. Thirdly, by delivering a children's health I sport related fitness scheme in educational and community settings which, aim to increase and encourage regular physical activity participation amongst children between the ages of 7-11 years of age therefore, reducing the risk of associated illness. Project Description - A descriptive Breakdown of Strategic Aims 1. To create more vibrant, active, safe and healthy neighbourhoods, within the County of Monmouthshire, by preventing and reducing anti-social offending behaviour, and drug and alcohol misuse through engaging young people aged 8-18 years old in safe, accessible and sustainable sports and arts activities. 2. To significantly contribute to the regeneration of the most deprived areas by reducing social and economic disparities, In Monmouthshire by re-engaging excluded communities and young people in training and education opportunities with clear exit routes into employment. 3. To deliver children's health I sport related fitness schemes in educational and community settings which, aim to increase and encourage regular physical activity participation amongst children between the ages of 7-11 years of age therefore, reducing the risk of associated illness. 4. To work in holistic partnership with all relevant agencies and all bodies who may have an influence or an interest in the reduction of crime and anti-social behaviour. This needs to be done in an unprejudiced, non-self promoting environment. The four unique strategic aims of the project demonstrate clear links and synergy towards the underlying and stated aims and objectives, targets and outcomes of:

• Local communities
• Police
• Local Authorities
• Fire Service
• Youth Offending Teams
• Safer Communities

1. To create more vibrant, active, safe and healthy neighbourhoods, within the County of Monmouthshire, by preventing and reducing anti-social offending behaviour through engaging young people aged 8-18 years old in safe, accessible and sustainable sports, arts and recreational activities. Specific Objectives: In consultation and partnership with the young people, communities and relevant partners, sports and arts packages of activities will be provided in a range of community use venues throughout the County of Monmouthshire. To establish a sports and arts package of activities unique to meet the specific needs of a local community, will require creating positive strong community links with the local community and relevant partners. This will be achieved twofold. Firstly through recruiting a Youth Sports and Arts Development Team who will be responsible for the co-ordination, development and implementation of each sports and arts package. Secondly through the involvement of all stakeholders in all aspects of the design and delivery. Realising this objective will undoubtedly assist with achieving the aims and objectives of local, regional and national strategies and initiatives, essentially by being a community led initiative. The Youth Sports and Arts Development Team will work with identified socially excluded young people aged 8 -18 years, specifically those at risk of offending. In particular those who are involved in offending or at most risk of offending and actively involved or at risk of involvement in drug or alcohol abuse The nature of the sport and art activities packages are to provide and deliver lifelong learning opportunities for young people aged 8-18 years, by developing their physical, mental and social and moral capacities. The types of activities and key components to achieve this objective include:

• Re-engaging young people aged 8-18years to regular participation in sporting activity programmes across a diverse range of sports that incorporate organised specialist sports coaching sessions with a link to mainstream sport
• Delivering creative artistic programmes that incorporate a wide range of events and activities, including among other forms, music, dance, drama, poetry and visual arts
• Diversionary education workshops and programmes using sport and art activities as a vehicle, designed to:
  • Tackle issues of importance, i.e. methods to prevention of drugs and alcohol mis-use, racism and youth offending
  • Offer advice and guidance to youngsters who would like to pursue a career in the sports and leisure industry
  • Devise and deliver the Proof of Age scheme
  • Delivering healthy lifestyle advise, guidance and support, delivered through a type of Healthy Living Centre project
• Providing training opportunities linked to mainstream skills and qualifications, i.e. swimming lessons and qualifications, Junior Sports Leadership Awards and Community Sports Leadership Awards as a pathway to positive attitudes and lifestyles and long-term involvement and exit routes into the leisure industry
• Various intensive inclusion programmes delivered by:
• Substance Misuse Officer in partnership with the Drugs Action Team with a particular focus of delivering drug prevention advise, social responsibility, confidence, self-esteem, leadership and social skills in a sporting environment
• The Local Authority in partnership with the Police in the delivery of the Proof of Age Scheme, whereby children receive advise, guidance and support relating to the important issues of alcohol, drugs and smoking consumption.

By linking elements from the sport and arts packages the Youth Sports and Arts Development Officer, will co-ordinate a 'Holiday Programme’ of opportunities. This will include away days, trips to places of culture and out-ward bound activities. A crucial component of the project will be to provide exit routes for the young people involved, through adopting the sports development continuum of participation through to excellence. This will be achieved by appointing a Communications Development Officer, who will play a vital role in improving the quality and quantity of sporting opportunities available to young people. The role of the Communications Development Officer will include:

• Improving the quality and quantity of sporting opportunities available to young people
• Co-ordinating and promoting training and development opportunities and activities for the young people and local people
• Providing support to existing and new local and professional clubs and coaches in conjunction with the local community, key stakeholders and governing body partners.
• Liasing with the private Leisure sector to create employment routes based around the training development programme

The project aims to deliver 10 Sport and Arts packages across Monmouthshire, with up to 50 children involved in each session. The creation of the Sport and Arts packages will develop and expand over a three year time period. The Sport and Arts Development project identifies Assembly recommendations and intends to achieve these recommendations by linking regeneration, sport, and health agendas at a local level to achieve community need. 2. To significantly contribute to the regeneration of the most deprived areas by reducing social and economic disparities, in Monmouthshire through re-engaging excluded communities and young people in training and education opportunities with clear exit routes into employment. Specific Objectives The project will re-engage local communities, to increase participation and lifelong learning in economic and social opportunities, for adults and young people by developing a training and development programme, delivered by the Training Officer, which will seek to: Adults:

• Provide X number of training places for local residents to gain new skills and qualifications to
  • Deliver activities within the sport and art activities packages
  • Access the dragon Sports Instructors course
  • Become adequately qualified to compete within the Private Health and Fitness sector
• Provide X number of mentoring opportunities for newly qualified instructors
• Support and assist X number of newly qualified instructors to access employment opportunities

The creation of training and employment opportunities for local residents in the most deprived areas, ensuring equal access and by linking with partner agencies, the private sector, and individuals contributing to sport and art locally, will create an infrastructure for sustainable employment routes for the delivery of local sport and art activities. To achieve this objective will address the issue of narrowing the gap between the most deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of the country, by lowering unemployment, reducing crime, and improving physical and mental health of the local areas. Young People Lifelong learning opportunities for young people is paramount in this project and will be achieved by providing training linked to mainstream skills and qualifications, such as i.e. swimming lessons and qualifications, Junior Sports Leaderships Awards, Community Sports Leadership Award and First Aid. The opportunities available include

• X JSLA places
• X CSLA places
• First Aid
• X Swimming lessons and qualifications

3. To deliver a children's health / sports related fitness scheme which aims to increase physical activity participation amongst children between the ages of 7-11 years old therefore, reducing the risk of associated illness. Specific Objectives To positively link the scheme to the successful Dragon Sport initiative to act as a preventative measure to the problems of disaffection within youths in Monmouthshire. The nature of the Dragon Sport scheme encourages children to recognise and become aware of the importance of regular physical activity as being an essential component of a healthy lifestyle. The aim is to reduce the trend of children’s declining activity levels. The Dragon Sport scheme will educate the children about the important features of the body, and can bring about psychological and physiological changes such as:

• Increased confidence
• behavioural changes
• Lower levels of obesity
• Reduced risk of coronary heart disease
• Improved quality of life

The project aims to deliver the Dragon Sport scheme within all Primary schools per year, with up to 30 children involved in each session. The Sport and Art project will target any deprived area whose Primary school(s) do not adopt the scheme by delivering Dragon Sport Clubs within community driven facilities. 4. To work in holistic partnership with all relevant agencies and all bodies who may have an influence or an interest in the reduction of crime and anti-social behaviour. This needs to be done in an unprejudiced, non-self promoting environment. This is one of the key sections of the strategy. I do not feel I am the appropriate person to write this section as I do not know enough about the local politics of the situation. Also, I feel that this is the main area for development if the meeting on Thursday 5^th June 2003 in regard to Section 17 is anything to go on. This meeting was simply a talk shop with no specific outcomes (or maybe I just missed them). There was a great deal of people prepared to puff out their chests and say how good they were but were more interested in self proclamation and disparaging others than working together. Project Locations The project will focus particularly on the most 'at risk’ areas of Monmouthshire, ideally based around Leisure Centre and in areas where youths are tending to congregate. Delivery of the project The Sport and Art initiative will target a range of young people and local residents living in at risk communities as follows:

• Sport and Art Packages:
• Young people aged 8-18 years
• Training and Educational Development Programme:
• Young people aged 8-18 years
• local residents living in disadvantaged communities 18 years and above
• School based and Community Dragon Sport (Young people aged 7-11 years)

The project will seek to contribute to reducing anti-social offending behaviour, drug and alcohol misuse and increasing regular participation in sport and physical activity. Evidencing and monitoring such data will be achieved by appointing a Monitoring and Evaluation officer, who will develop a system for evaluating the success of the project by supervising and directing the following partnership and operational targets and outcomes. Appointing a Monitoring and Evaluation officer will assist with

1. The recent increased emphasis of demonstrating evidenced based policy
2. Illustrating that the project has achieved its objectives, targets and outcomes
3. Acting as a review of the effectiveness of the programmes within the project
4. Demonstrating the positive benefits that the programme offers the participants involved

The following information describes the types of partnership and operational targets and outcomes that the project will be monitoring and evaluating Partnership Targets and Outcomes Crime and Disorder

• Police statistics
• Informal views of police
• The impact upon Juvenile / Youth offending rates within the project areas
• Reduction in the incidences of anti-social behaviour
• Reduced youth related crime of four main areas
• Damage
• Vandalism
• Theft
• Assault
• Reduced complaints to the police
• Comments from local residents
• Police records of disturbances - types of disturbances
• Changes in police disturbance reports

Education

• Improved attendance rates at school
• Increased and improved achievement at school and sport development

Health

• Contribute to reducing the proportion of the population who are sedentary
• Increase the proportion of the population engaging in regular moderate intensity physical activity
• Increase the proportion of the population engaging in vigorous physical activity
• Self assessed improvements to health and fitness
• Levels of adherence to sporting and physical activity interventions

Sports Development

• Numbers of young people participating
• Involvement of target groups in sports programmes
• Number of young people obtaining a new sports / coaching qualification
• Number of recognised training sport and health qualifications places and gained for local residents and young people
• Commitment to continued post intervention participation
• Numbers of clubs participants have joined
• Participants development of sporting interests to determine exit routes analysis
• Comparing participants follow-up goals to their achievements to assist in the review of participants progress

Youth Offending / Drug Action Team

• The impact upon Juvenile / Youth offending rates within the project areas
• Reduction in the incidences of anti-social offending behaviour
• Reduction in the incidences of drug related crime
• Reduced complaints to the police
• Comments from local residents

Training

• X number of recognised training qualifications places provided for local residents to gain new skills and qualifications to

The measurement of causes for Youth Crime

• Inadequate parenting
• Aggressive Hyperactive behaviour
• Peer group pressure
• Drugs and Alcohol misuse
• Lack of training and employment
• Unstable living conditions
• Truancy and exclusions

Operational Targets and Outcomes Participation

• X number of Sports and Arts Packages provided per year
• Total number of young people accessing the all of the elements to the scheme: Broken down into
  • X number of young people accessing each Sports and Arts Package
  • X number of young people accessing community Dragon Sport
  • X number of young people accessing school Dragon Sport
• Locations
• X number of young people accessing exit route opportunities into a local or professional sport
• X number of young people receiving educational and diversionary advise, support and assistance
• X number of stakeholders working in partnership

Training for adults

• X number of recognised training qualifications places provided for local residents to gain new skills and qualifications to
  • Deliver activities within the sport and art activities packages
  • Access the Dragon Sport Instructors course
  • Become adequately qualified to compete within the Private Health and Fitness sector
• X number of people accessing recognised training qualifications places
• X number of people achieving recognised training qualifications
• X number of mentoring opportunities for newly qualified instructors
• X number of newly qualified instructors supported and assisted to access employment opportunities

Training for young people

• X number of recognised training qualifications places provided for young people
• X number of young people accessing recognised training qualifications places
• X number of people achieving recognised training qualifications

Summary - what will happen as a result? How the project will meet the desired outcomes In summary, the aims of the project are to reduce youth offending, drug and alcohol misuse, social and economic disparities and to increase regular participation in sport and physical activity, by creating more vibrant, active, safe and healthy neighbourhoods for young people within the County of Monmouthshire. This will be achieved by threefold. Firstly by re-engaging and addressing the most disadvantaged excluded young people, aged 8-18 years. By increasing regular participation and lifelong involvement in a diverse range of sports, arts, educational and training activities and opportunities, created as a package to specifically meet the needs of the community whereby its delivered. As a means to reducing anti-social offending behaviour, crime, drug and alcohol misuse, thus reducing crime and disorder in the local community and increasing the opportunities for young people. The sports and arts packages will involve intensive educational inclusion programmes based upon issues of importance to include drugs, alcohol, racism, crime, health and nutrition. Secondly by providing support, deliver and create access to education, training and employment skill development programmes and opportunities to improve the quality of life and to develop skills of local residents and young people in deprived communities to enable them to gain and develop skills to enter the labour market. Thirdly, by delivering a children's health I sport related fitness scheme in educational and community settings which, aim to increase and encourage regular physical activity participation amongst children between the ages of 7-11 years of age therefore, reducing the risk of associated illness Youth Sport and Arts Night Project The section of the overall Youth Sport and Arts night project still outstanding is a comprehensive document, detailing the operational components of a Youth Sport and Arts night. The following points give an overview of the types of items that need to be included in this section of the overall project.

• Project Aims
• See above
• Objectives
• See above
• Target groups
• Is there a need for separate sessions based on age ranges?
• How will the young people be targeted?
• Does the project require outreach workers to target the young children?
• If yes to the above how will the outreach workers fit into the project
• Is there a selection criteria, do we need one if we are oversubscribed?
• Marketing and promotion - How will the scheme be marketed and promoted - Will each child be given a swipe card to check attendance under the current scheme, if no can this be a possibility if Leisure Centres are used as venues.
• Transport - is there scope to involve a mini-bus to ensure all children are included in the project?
• Staffing - What staffing structure is required i.e. co-ordinator, qualified coaches, volunteers, admin support etc. - How many staff are required to run one evening within the Health and Safety regulations?
• Evaluation and Monitoring - How are the children accounted for? -i.e. Does the project have registers, are there any records to check re-visits of the young children back to the project - if not can you suggest the tools required to achieve this. What types of performance measures can be implemented to show improvements in either physical, social or mental achievements.
• Research - What types of research will be undertaken to monitor successfulness of the project i.e. questionnaires

Sport and Arts Initiative requirements:

• Diversionary education inclusion workshops and programmes using sport, arts, and recreational activities as a vehicle that are designed to
  • Tackle issues of importance, i.e. methods to prevention of drugs and alcohol misuse, racism, health including nutrition
  • Offer advice and guidance to youngsters who would like to pursue a career in the sports and leisure industry
• Providing training opportunities linked to mainstream skills and qualifications, i.e. ACB as a pathway to positive attitudes and lifestyles and long-term involvement and exit routes into the leisure industry
• Intensive inclusion programmes delivered by the Substance Misuse Officer in partnership with the Drugs Action Team with a particular focus of delivering drug prevention advise, social responsibility, confidence, self-esteem, leadership and social skills in a sporting environment
• Target groups

• How do you intend to target the young people
• Is there a need for separate sessions based on age ranges?
• Does the project require outreach workers to target the young children?
• If yes to the above how will the outreach workers fit into the project
• Is there a selection criteria do we need one if we are over-subscribed?
• Details of the project workshops - i.e. how long do they last, what’s involved, the types of activities delivered, how many qualified staff are required to run the workshops, what are the measurable outcomes, can we demonstrate an impact upon Juvenile / Youth offending rates, numbers engaged in treatment, reduction in incidences of anti-social behaviour, better attendance at school ad increased achievement
• Marketing and promotion - How will the scheme be marketed and promoted
• Staffing - What staffing structure is required i.e. co-ordinator, qualified tutors, volunteers, admin support etc,
• Training - How train the leaders, what types of qualifications do they need to have before accessing the ABC course, are there any age boundaries, how long is the course.
• Evaluation and Monitoring - How are the children accounted for? What types of performance measures can be implemented to show improvements in physical, social or mental achievements. What are the measurable outcomes, can we demonstrate an impact upon Juvenile / Youth offending rates, numbers engaged in treatment, reduction in incidences of anti-social behaviour, better attendance at school ad increased achievement. How will crime reduction rates be accounted for by involving drug awareness?
• Research - What types of research has been undertaken to demonstrate that this type of drug prevention actually works. What strategies does this type of work fit with: i.e. Drug Action Team Strategy?