Restorative Justice Conference

Addressing Youth Crime & Antisocial Behaviour

Thursday 19 May 2011,  Westminster Studio,  Central London 

The national conference on Addressing Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour is a platform to discuss a future where prevention and early intervention are given a higher priority in tackling youth crime and antisocial behaviour.

Share experiences and network with your peers working in youth offending teams, police, local authorities, education, secure establishments, courts and probation.

Hear from speakers, including: Ian McPherson QPM Asst Commissioner Metropolitan Police & National Lead, ACPO Children & Young People Business Area	Andrew Webb Corporate Director Children & Young People, Stockport Council, Elected Director, The Association of Directors of Children’s Services Ltd
Kelvin Doherty Assistant Director Northern Ireland Youth Conference Service	Anthony Salz Chair, Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour
John Drew Chief Executive Youth Justice Board for England and Wales	Lizzie Nelson Director Restorative Justice Council
View agenda Register your place http://tinyurl.com/4ld5hk4 for more information. This event is not organised by OCVYS.

The future of the voluntary children and youth sector consultation.

We carried out a consultation at the Prospective Futures Conference around the future of the voluntary children and young people's sector in Oxfordshire.

The consultation generated some amazing ideas throughout the sector around what we can do to support your organisation, as well as the substantial role that voluntary sector organisations will play in the voluntary sector moving forward. The full paper is on our website, link at the bottom of the page. In the meantime, here are the key highlights from the discussions.

The voluntary sector will inevitably play a significant role in delivering public services to children and young people moving forward and in Oxfordshire in particular- will become largely the main provider of youth services. We need to be careful not to lose sight of the agenda for keeping youth work as part of public services. As news released today that Play England is also to lose its Government funding, it is becoming apparent that on the whole the Government is likely to lose sight of the children and youth agenda without a significant voice for the voluntary children and youth sector.

Key aspects of the consultation highlighted the need for a new breed of leadership in the voluntary children and youth sector- in Oxfordshire 774 registered organisations (according to the Charity Commission) are working with children and young people. We need to ensure these organisations are better represented in decision making and to do this we need to look beyond meetings where no-one goes to willingly, and look to how we can progress to a practical, exciting leadership platform where real decisions can be made for the benefit of the people we serve, children and young people and their families.

In driving forward our own leadership we are going to look at a range of options, but we would love to hear your thoughts. Email us, leave a comment, or ring us. We are all ears.

To read the strategy in progress: http://tinyurl.com/strategyocvys

The new Oxfordshire Children and Voluntary Youth Services Blog.

This blog is designed to give uptodate news and views of what is happening at Oxfordshire Children and Voluntary Youth Services, a membership charity working with organisations across Oxfordshire that work with children and young people.

Pass on your comments and feedback and tell us how we can make this better. We'll try and get all the news of what's happening in the county to you quickly in return, and aim to update the blog quickly. You can also follow us on Twitter to find out when we have updated the Blog.

Want to find out more information about OCVYS? Why not visit our website at www.ocvys.org or call us on 01865 774004