Targeted youth support: case studies
The case studies in this toolkit are intended to inform and support partners in children's trusts as they develop and redesign their targeted youth support (TYS). Some of the case studies are written directly by partners in children's trusts.
Process case studies
These case studies will help pathfinders address the challenges they face during their TYS change process. The case studies are grouped under the first four of the five change process stages:
Personal view case studies
Project managers and sponsors provide accounts of their TYS
pathfinders.
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studies.
Redesigning services to help young people with particular needs
In these case studies, the pathfinders describe how they are redesigning their TYS services to achieve the outcomes set out in Every Child Matters and Youth Matters: Next Steps.
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Swift and easy referral case studies
In these case studies, schools describe how they link with services outside the school to promote young people's general wellbeing and their ability to learn. Note that these case studies have not been generated by the targeted youth support pathfinders, but through the implementation of extended services in or through schools.
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Further resources and practice
The Every Child Matters resources
and practice database provides useful good practice and multi-agency case
studies and materials on a wide range of topics relevant to targeted youth
support. Categories include social care, welfare, protection, teenage
pregnancy, culture, sport and play.
It is crucial that the TYS solutions outlined in the case studies are not implemented by children's trusts without working through the first three stages of the TYS change process. Implementing ad hoc solutions without thoroughly exploring the root causes of the current situation is likely to result in ineffective, inappropriate and unsustainable solutions.
If you would like to provide a case study about your TYS process or solution, email writing@remodelling.org.
This page was last updated on 24 April 2007
