The Extending Entitlement Group has been developed to encompass the Young People’s Partnership.   It’s aims are to develop support and services for young people aged 11 to 25 years.  They meet about 6 times a year and feed directly into CYPSP on issues impacting upon young people in Denbighshire.

The Young People’s Partnership was inspected by Estyn in 2006 and The Youth Support Services Action Plan was developed to help us improve support, services and activities, and also how we manage our partnership to ensure these are delivered for young people.

The Extending Entitlement Group have taken responsibility for the Young People’s Partnership and for delivering the Ten Entitlements. The Ten Entitlements were developed from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The CYPSP agreed to the Extending Entitlement Group taking responsibility for Young People’s Partnership.  This has meant a review on the membership which will now be:

• Director of Lifelong Learning, Denbighshire County Council
• Senior Managers, Careers Wales NW & Careers Wales NE
• Head Teacher Representative
• 14-19 Network Co-ordinator, Denbighshire County Council
• Principal Youth Officer, Denbighshire County Council
• Youth Justice Board
• Menter Iaith
• Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB/NHS Trust
• Yr Urdd
• Coleg Llandrillo - Representation from Rhyl, Denbigh & Rhos-on-Sea Campus'
• Head of Leisure Services, Denbighshire County Council
• Hafan Clwyd
• Commissioning & Planning, Children's Services, Denbighshire County Council
• Community Safety Officer, North Wales Police
• Business Development/Enterprise Agency
• Youth Inclusion Project
• Lead member Children & Young People, Denbighshire County Council
• Voluntary Sector Representation from - Girl Guiding, Cyfle Barnardos, Denbigh Youth Project, 1 vacancy

We are now moving forward with our work plans to respond to our re-inspection by Estyn in March 2009 and their report on our progress.

The Extending Entitlement group are concentrating on 7 work strands:

o WS1: Improving basic skills beyond school
o WS2: Improving social use of Welsh and Welsh language provision
o WS3: Addressing the needs of 16 – 25year olds
o WS4: Addressing rurality
o WS5: Improving information to Children & Young People
o WS6: Collating an overview of Youth Support Services
o WS7: Developing and implementing our NEETs (not in education, employment or training) Strategy

We will soon be publishing our 2009-11 Action Plan and we will be carefully monitoring progress on these key areas of work.