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Government's 'Time to Talk consultation:
New taskforce support for youngsters and families
A new Youth People Directorate has been established at the Department for Children, Schools and Families to provide various help and support to young people – including steps to prevent them getting into trouble and encouraging them to have respect for their community.
The Department will provide on–going funding of up–to £18 million over the next three years to sustain the recently established network of 53 family intervention projects.
The Respect Taskforce’s work on preventing and tackling anti–social behaviour will continue but will come under the new Youth Taskforce.
The youth taskforce, created from the Respect Taskforce, will be headed–up by Anne Weinstock, who established Millennium Volunteers and the Connexions Service. Her most recent job has been as a director in the Department for Children, Schools and Families in charge of the supporting children and young people group.
Lesley Longstone, has been appointed director general to run the Young People Directorate. Lesley has worked in the field of employment, education and training for more than 20 years.
A strengthened families group is also being established, working alongside the Youth People Directorate and Respect Taskforce. Led by Peter Wanless, it will develop the cross–government strategy on families [parents and carers], covering both services that support families directly and those that deal with issues of family dysfunction and breakdown. The aim of the strategy will be to ensure that policy across Government is consistent and works in the best interest of the child.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has also launched a national consultation called, ‘Time to Talk’ asking parents, young people and professionals how the needs of children can be put at the centre of the Department's policy–making.
For more information about the Youth People Directorate, and Department for Children, Schools and Families email: info@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk. Also, visit the Department's website at: www.dcsf.gov.uk.
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