• PAVO Need Your Views! The Real Value of the Sector working with Children & Young People
• Child Poverty: What are we doing about it?
• Powys Third Sector Service Provider Forum
• Children & Young People's Network
• Launch of Local Resource Solution Panels
• Children & Health & Social Services Update
• Voluntary Sector Training Group
• Powys 14-19 Network
• Local Safeguarding Children Board

The Real Value of the Sector working with Children & Young People
PAVO has taken on the role to find out the real value that third sector organisations contribute towards the outcomes for children and young people.

What are we aiming to do and why?
•    Gather data which shows the value of the sector in terms of money and resources eg: funding and volunteer time
•    Show how the activities of community groups/voluntary organisations help to make positive changes for individuals and communities.

This will help:
•    To contribute towards planning services, effectively, across the whole of Powys
•    Your organisation when planning your own services and applying for funding.

The data collected will be analysed with the aim to demonstrate the economic and social value of the third sector in Powys.  Access to the full data will be available only to the core project team.  The collated and analysed will be available publicly.

How to complete the questionnaire
It may be more appropriate for another person within your organisation to complete different parts of the questionnaire and this is possible.

If you cannot respond to a question please leave it blank but please complete as many questions as possible.  You may wish to only answer part of the questionnaire. 

The questionnaire covers the following areas:

Section A: Your Organisations Details (mandatory)
Section B: The People you Provide Services for (mandatory)
Section C: Staff/Volunteer Information (optional)
Section D: Financial Information (optional)
Section E: The differences you Make to your Community (optional)

If your organisation is part of a group structure or branch of a larger organisation, please answer the questions on behalf of your branch operating in Powys.

Need help in completing the questionnaire?

If you have any other additional communication needs or require a paper version of the questionnaire please contact us and we will endeavour to meet your needs.

If you have any questions about the questionnaire please contact:
Yvonne Owen-Newns, Yvonne.owennewns@pavo.org.uk tel: 01597 822191

Please click on the link below to fill in the questionnaire.

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFhWWFFZYlFZX3ZRejZKLUo5Q2FaSkE6MQ

There are currently many reports on the state of Child Poverty across the UK, including Wales and rural areas.  We need to find out what organisations are doing to help reduce the effects of child poverty in Powys.  To do this, the Strategic Partnerships in Powys are using a self-assessment process which has been designed by Save the Children.  

If you would like to take part in this mapping exercise please complete the templates and return to: Yvonne Owen-Newns, PAVO offices in Llandrindod Wells or email: yvonne.owennewns@pavo.org.uk

For more information, campaigns, research and reports please see the following websites:

Save the Children  http://www.savethechildren.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/en/9070.htm

Children in Wales: End Child Poverty Network http://www.childreninwales.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/areasofwork/<wbr></wbr>childpoverty/<wbr></wbr>endchildpovertynetwork/index.<wbr></wbr>html

Oxfam:  http://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam_<wbr></wbr>in_action/issues/poverty-in-<wbr></wbr>the-uk.html

Click on the link above for all the latest Briefings and paperwork for the Network meetings.

Powys will have six Local Resource Solution Panels (LRSP) to help families get the best response from local services for children and young people.

Most children and families who need additional support can obtain it through one of the professionals working in a school or community health setting.

Sometimes additional help is needed from a service with more specialist knowledge; sometimes help from more than one agency needs to be co-ordinated.

The panels meet every month and have representatives from all of the main agencies working with children and young people in your area. Members of the panel are well informed about all of the support services for children and young people in your area .They will discuss the information provided on the referral form and give the professional person who has made the referral advice on the best way to help. The panels can also refer the child or family to other services and appoint a lead professional to make sure that the work with the family is co-ordinated in the most effective way.

Membership is open to any voluntary organisation/community group interested in developing, coordinating, providing and accessing training for those working with under 25s. Regular meetings, at least quarterly, are held to discuss, debate and to influence the Single Training Forum (multi-agency sub-group of the Children & Young People's Partnership). 

Minutes of meeting 13 September 2007

Minutes of meeting 22 November 2007

Minutes of meeting 22 January 2008

Minutes of meeting 11 March 2008

Social Inclusion

Membership is open to any voluntary organisation/community group who are interested in developing, coordinating and providing support services for vulnerable young people in the county. Quarterly meetings are held, usually with guest speakers invited, to share good practice and information

Minutes of meeting 27 June 2007

Notes from meeting 17 October 2007

Minutes from meeting 28 January 2008

Powys 14-19 Network is "to help all the young people in Powys reach their potential by increasing the choice, flexibility and quality of learning and support available".

Their overarching aim in Powys is to continue to develop the ethos and practice of working collaboratively so that a strategic approach can be employed to develop the learning infrastructure, learning provision and support mechanisms available across Powys rather than the localised development planned and implemented by individual providers that has been evident in the past.