Positive Activities for Young People

Services for Young People: Value for Money Self-Assessment Pack

This self-assessment pack is a result of collaboration between the Audit Commission and the Confederation of Heads of Young People’s Services (CHYPS). We are grateful to Ofsted for supporting this resource pack and advising on its content.

The tool has been piloted in a number of areas. Those involved in piloting it saw it as serving a number of purposes:

• to increase the self-awareness of council youth services managers and staff;
• to facilitate joint discussions with partner organisations on how to improve and achieve better value for money;
• to identify some ‘quick wins’– such as identifying the need to do more to celebrate young people’s achievements;
• to raise the profile of services for young people; and
• to initiate a longer-term review of provision, staffing and costs across both statutory and voluntary sectors.

While this pack is designed as a self-assessment tool you may wish to have support in using it. CHYPS can provide independent facilitation if you are using the pack with a group of people. For more information, please contact:

David Wright at CHYPS: davidwright.chyps@nya.org.uk

Lisa Putnam at CHYPS: lisap@nya.org.uk

For more information about the Audit Commission or CHYPS go to:

http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk

http://www.chyps.org.uk/

Getting started

To start using the pack, please click on the ‘next’ button at the bottom of this page.