Here are all the research documents related to commissioning on youth:

• Next Practice in System Leadership – 3E’s Coalition of schools. (39 KB)

  3Es is a coalition of six secondary schools in the Midlands and Surrey, formed to implement and further develop the 3Es ethos; a set of beliefs and practices designed to address long term underachievement. Previously failing or underachieving participating schools, report a 20 – 30% improvement in student achievement during the period of their involvement.

• National Challenge: A toolkit for schools and Local Authorities (1.01 MB)

  National Challenge: Raising Standards, Supporting Schools. The National Challenge will support schools with the lowest GCSE results, so that by 2011 in every secondary school at least 30% of students will achieve five GCSEs at A*-C including English and mathematics. The National Challenge will focus greater attention; help and resources on schools that are currently below this benchmark

• Next Practice in System Leadership – Remaking Learning in Barnsley (35 KB)

  'Remaking Learning' is an Authority wide programme aimed at transforming lifelong learning in Barnsley using phase three of Building Schools for the Future (BSF) as a catalyst. In the programme, provision in both the primary and secondary phases is being rationalised to create new Primary Learning Centres and Advanced Learning Centres. These will make a new and extended offer to the communities they serve by providing improved access to a range of services including education.

• Co-located Services Toolkit: Benefits of and opportunities for co-located service provision (46 KB)

  Experience of public service providers so far indicates that co-located services provision can bring a range of benefits and opportunities. These benefits and opportunities can arise for several diverse stakeholders.

• Next Practice in System Leadership – Biddenham Queen’s Park (35 KB)

  Biddenham Queens Park (BQP) is an informal collaboration of three schools serving a multi cultural and relatively deprived community on the outskirts of Bedford. The three schools work together with the children’s centre to offer a range of services, including education.The vision that unites BQP is a desire to bring coherence to the experiences of pupils and families in the locality, working together to try to help families to overcome significant barriers.

• Narrowing the gap in outcomes (818 KB)

  The research focuses on the key features of governance necessary to narrow the gap in outcomes for vulnerable groups, and explores whether governance that is effective for narrowing the gap is different from governance that is effective generally. This report will be of interest to directors of children’s services (DCSs), children’s trust board members, policy makers, and senior leaders and managers within local authorities, the National Health Service (NHS), schools, and the voluntary sector.

• Next Practice in System Leadership – Central Leeds Learning Federation (37 KB)

  The Central Leeds Learning Federation was established in September 2005 in a move to address significant and persistent levels of educational underachievement, disadvantage and low expectations amongst students attending two inner city high schools. Central Leeds Learning Federation set out to develop, through extensive consultation with stakeholder groups across the schools and in the local community, a new governance and leadership structure to serve the Federation.

• Next Practice in System Leadership – Chichester Community Alliance (36 KB)

  Chichester Community Alliance has a nursery school, a children’s centre and two primary schools which together serve around 800 families in central Chichester. The Alliance extends beyond education to include health, social services, the police and voluntary organizations. The Community Alliance was conceived as a way of providing strategic direction for the integration of children’s services in the area and grew from a project that had its roots in Sure Start. The purpose of the Community Alliance is to explore models of leadership and governance that will provide a fit for purpose vehicle for providing efficient and effective services to families in a multi agency setting.

• Commissioning counselling services for young people- a guide for commissioners (1.02 MB)

  The aim of this guide is to assist commissioners charged with the responsibility for services and young people to think about including counselling services in the range of services they commission. Recognised by the Department of Health as a form of psychological therapy, and accepted as a therapeutic approach in the range of interventions for children and adolescents.

• Commissioning Alternative Provision- Guidance for Local Authorities and Schools (264 KB)

  The aim of this guidance is to assist partners responsible for arranging alternative provision for children and young people in commissioning appropriate alternative provision that suitably meets young people’s needs and aspirations, whilst also ensuring good quality and value for money.