Youth Support and Development Service

The Youth Support and Development Service (YSDS) is part of the Community Learning Division of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and aims to promote learning, employability and personal development for young people aged 13-19 years.

• About Youth Support and Development
• For young people: grants of up to £2,000 are available - contact the Youth Participation Team on 020 7938 8000.
• Apollo Awards 2008
• For youth workers
• Training updates
• Teenage Pregnancy - A Resource for Professionals
• Off-site activities
• Education business partnership

About Youth Support and Development

• About Youth Support

For young people

Youth grants

Grants of up to £2000 are available for youth projects that support the aims of the Youth Support and Development Service.

This grants scheme is specifically for projects initiated and co-ordinated by young people attending youth organisations registered with Commmunity Learning or who have the support of a Connexions Personal Adviser as their project guide.

For more information please contact the Youth Participation Team on 020 7938 8000.

For youth workers

The YSDS Team Toolkit

Here you can download the YSDS Toolkit for information about Planning Recording and Evaluation Tools.

	Title	File Size
	Introduction	(328Kb)
	The Framework
	Every Child and Youth Matters	(604Kb)
	Opportunities to Succeed: Curriculum Guidance	(302Kb)
	Service Delivery Plan
	The Delivery	(269Kb)
	1. The Active Involvement of Young People	(350Kb)
	2. Planning, Recording and Evaluation Tools (PRET)	(239Kb)
	3. Recognising Young People’s Achievement: Recorded and Accredited Outcomes	(231Kb)
	4. Agreeing Conduct: A Positive Approach	(318Kb)
	5. Providing Information, Advice and Guidance	(228Kb)
	6. Street Based Youth Work with Young People	(228Kb)
	7. Premises Management Guidelines	(241Kb)
	The Support
	1. Doing the Job Well: A Quality Approach	(350Kb)
	2. Staff Support and Supervision: Investing in People	(400Kb)
	3. Reviewing your Progress: Guidance for Staff and Managers	(308Kb)

Teenage Pregnancy - A Resource for Professionals

Here you can download the Teenage Pregnancy - A Resource for Professionals publication.

This guide has been produced by the Royal Borough's Teenage Pregnancy Team to support professionals working with young people around the issue of unplanned/unintended pregnancy. It provides professionals with up-to-date information on a range of local services, contacts and resources.

Download and print the Teenage Pregnancy - A Resource for Professionals [PDF file] (File size 448Kb)

We aim to support staff within the YSDS by providing material electronically wherever we can. We believe that this assists communications within YSDS. We welcome your suggestions for forms that we could provide online.

Email your suggestions to learning@rbkc.gov.uk.

Off-site activities

Children and young people can derive a great deal of educational benefit from taking part in organised visits. In particular, they have the opportunity to undergo experiences not available in their normal environment.

For more information please see our Guidelines and code of practice for off-site activities pages.

Education Business Partnership

The Education Business Partnership (EBP) brings together schools, colleges, businesses and the voluntary sector to form lasting partnerships of mutual benefit. The range of projects includes:

• Work Experience for school and college students. Students aged 14-19 can undertake either a block placement (for example two weeks) or day release (one to two days per week for 10+ weeks).
• Mentoring matches employees with young people on a one to one basis. The pair then work together for a specified period on an agreed programme to support the young person’s education/personal development.
• Teacher placements can be for one to five days. These involve teachers working in a company and shadowing employees to either develop management skills or develop curriculum resources. The placement should link with the school/colleges CPD programme.
• Careers and industry days to raise awareness of employment opportunities in the world of work.
• Visits to industry by students following a vocational course. The students can observe skilled professionals at work and gain a better understanding of the variety of roles and how departments link together
• Employees volunteer to visit schools to do careers talks, interview skills training, judging competitions, etc.
• Business challenges are tasks set by industry (anything from marketing a new product to transporting goods through road closures) to a group of students. The group will then initiate various entrepreneurial skills to come up with a proposal and then present this back to the business.

Related Information

• Apollo Awards Nomination Form 2008