Supporting children and young people to
Achieve Economic Wellbeing

Notes of Meeting

Time:  2.00
Date:  12 March 2008
Venue:  Flowery Children’s Centre, SureStart Hyde, Old Road, Hyde SK14 4SQ

1. Welcome and introductions

Present:

Lucy Davies - Chair
Bob Shaw - Area Coordinator and AEW lead (note taker)
Sheila Piazza - Connexions
Phil Spence - Community Economic Development Manager
Alan Franco - Head of Welfare Rights, Community Legal Services
Christine Gerrard - Team Leader, leaving care team
Andrew Leah - Housing Services Manager
Caroline Gregory - Principal Priorities Neighbourhood Renewal Officer
Lorna Grennan - PCT Locality Services Coordinator
Present for item 5:
Phil Tomlinson - JAR consultant
Tom Coffey - Head of Strategy and Commissioning 

2. Apologies:

Steve Openshaw
Alison Cresswell
Tony Kay

3. Minutes of last meeting

Approved

4. Matters arising

Proposed Improvement Actions as minuted were agreed.
Bob will take initial action to coordinate the improvement action relating to Tony Kay’s report Card (see item 5).
There are no action arising from item 6.1.4
Alan reported that actions lead by him and Geraldine (see item 6.1.5) were underway

5. Draft AEW self-assessment for Joint Area Review

This part of the meeting was dedicated to an examination of the draft JAR self-evaluation coordinated and prepared earlier by Bob. Bob also mentioned that the sections relating to the 14-19 partnership (5.2 and 5.3) were submitted to that partnership the previous day for similar scrutiny. Comments from that meeting not included in the draft today would be added.
A number of matters relating principally to supporting data and commentary were made. Inclusion of these in the further revision will strengthen the submission.
Additionally, there was a call for story board/case study items that can be referenced by inspectors.
It was further agreed that Bob would make contact with individual contributors to seek clarification and accuracy on the matters raised today and distribute this for final comment. The submission will need to be with Tom Coffey by the end of March.

 6. Tellus2 survey: AEW extract make contact

The survey data in the Tellus2 was noted; of particular comment was reference and discussion to encouraging and supporting the aspirations of young people.

7. Theme for the meeting

7.1. Community regeneration initiatives address the needs of children and young people

7.1.1. Presentation and Indices of multiple deprivation 2007
Members should note that this document is not for general release; further revisions are awaited before final publication can be authorised

7.1.2. Report cards
Caroline had taken a different approach to the construction of the report cards but they nonetheless presented a very helpful picture of regeneration activities with and for young people.

Report card 1 of 2
This report card provided overall headline data and commentary on regeneration activities in the St. Peter’s area of Ashton under Lyne and was thus something of a case study of activities and progress in this area over the past 8 years. Much of what was reported was encouraging particularly around community cohesion, measurable changes in hate crime, reductions in youth nuisance, school attendance, punctuality and progress at school. However it was felt by the group that it was not possible to establish clearly enough that the activities per se had caused the reported improvements. It was acknowledged that the activities were likely to have contributed to the encouraging data reported but this could not be certain.

The report card provoked further important discussion on the notion of ‘contextual value added’ – i.e. did these young people make greater progress (at school) relative to the rest. This was felt to be a productive avenue for exploration though this data was not available. Consequently, improvement actions as noted below were sought before reaching further judgement.

Report card 2 of 2
This report card provided overall headline data and commentary on all regeneration activities across Tameside. This second report card was subject to similar commentary as the first.

7.1.3. Discussion and judgement
The data in these report cards although heartening in many respects was not judged at this meeting. Further exploration of data sources held by the School Improvement Service will form part of a future meeting in an effort to reach a more firm judgement on these activities.

7.1.4. Future action
That the repository of data held by the school improvement service be examined further to discover data that will facilitate both a postcode/residential analysis by regeneration area and provide a focus on young people living in such areas that are successful to help facilitate further discussion. Lead from Caroline Gregory and Vincent Ward.

 8. Reflection on process

None

9. AOB

10. Date of next meeting:

14th May 9.00am

Note: Change of Venue
Greenside Children’s Centre. Greenside Lane, Droylsden, M43 7RA