Sunday, 25 November 2012

Hall Green Convention Youth Services

Image from 2011, youth centres were under threat
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/
local-news/young-people-write-letters-to-stop-149262
Pete Hobbs, Hall Green District Service Integration Head and South Bham college arranged a Hall Green 'youth service convention'.  Represented there were nearly all the councillors from all our wards, representatives from the Police and other services, all the area's senior BCC youth workers (hub and spokes), a few more representatives of related services for youths, sprinkling of senior school reps and a couple of voluntary sector youth people.

A series of presentations (see twitter notes below in reverse chronological order - sorry, will have to work that one out better someday)

It was particularly nice for me to see so many familiar faces, and none less than Cllr Sue Anderson, who opened my first exhibition with Rosemary Lodge Residential Home on Alcester Road, Kings Heath some fourteen years ago (as Birmingham Lord Mayor of the time, 1999).  Also saw Claire from my days as Billesley Annexe Youth worker in the last century, or so it feels.  I tried to find an image of the Billesley Annexe - only images were on BNP site.  Also got to find out sad demise of Youthwise.

On a bit of tangent, I've been doing a bit of research into road safety for 'Car Culture' project in our schools - in 1973 Councillor Theresa Stewart (Lord Mayor in 2000) led a campaign after tragic death of 6 yr old Neil Potter in Maypole, leading to a proliferation of crossings for pedestrians across Birmingham under our first female Lord Mayor, Marjorie Brown (who also opened the soon-to-be-demolished Central Library).  If anyone knows anything about this campaign to make roads safe, Birmingham Campaigns for road safety, or Marjorie Brown, please let me know.

Great to see so much will to sort out the problems across the political divides - It'll take some pretty creative partnerships to sort out youth service provision on a shoestring over coming months...

 cllr Anderson women in education achieving better than men
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 Anderson worrying gender gap b
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 cllr Anderson we need to make opportunities in count
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 cllr sue Anderson fortunate in  to have so many opportunities for young people
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 Twells schools developing new relationships with local businesses
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 Sue Twells are school governors representative of their community?
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 Sue Twells are governors willing to support ALL the children in their area?
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 Sue Twells governors are the important decision makers in schools
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 sue twells more autonomy of schools, academies part of wider movement
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 sue Twells changing landscape of education
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 Collins about prioritising, targeting partnership and more general changing perceptions
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 Collins close work with Police. Lot of moustashes. Should I ask if Movember tashes?
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 Nikki Collins community safety - partnership Services and voluntary. 'intelligence' driven
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 Cole cannot achieve without partnership
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 Cole no longer a universal  service  but is still open access
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 Cole explains new hub and spoke model
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 Cole highlights youth bus for outreach
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 ness Cole area youth officer intro youth provision
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 cllr Evans we are national pilot green community and youth
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 cllr Evans schools have key role, link with  and beam uni
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 Pete Hobbs New opportunities within district
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 Pete Hobbs asks how involve  ? What priorities in your ward?
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 Pete Hobbs overview of Clean and Green
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 Pete Hobbs gives overview - emphasis on positive impact of services
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Cllrs Rehman and Trickett give intro
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at Hall Green district convention for  and young folk.
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