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This toolkit aims to turn the principles in the All Wales Protocol: reducing the criminalisation of care experienced children and young adults into practice.

They hope it will be used extensively as a resource to train and support multi agency colleagues working with care experienced children and young adults.

National Charity Missing People in partnership with Llamau and consultant Claire Sands were commissioned by the Children’s Commissioning Consortium Cymru (4Cs) to develop this toolkit, you can find all the information as well as details of free training events on the Missing People website here: https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/reducing-the-criminalisation-of-care-experienced-children-and-young-adults-in-wales-a-practical-toolkit-for-professionals#section-4

Would you like the children and young people you work with to be recognised for their contribution to peace, sustainability and equality at an international event in Wales? 

If so, encourage them to enter for this year’s Young Peacemakers Awards 2023!
On 6^th July 2023 the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA) and the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod will host a Young Peacemakers Awards Ceremony at the Eisteddfod where young people will receive a certificate and an award.

WCIA invite children and young people (between 5 and 25 yrs old) to get creative and express their thoughts, feelings and dreams about how the world can be a more peaceful, equitable and sustainable place – through words, art or digital media.
Individual young people or groups can enter under the following categories:

• Young Peacemaker of the year
• Young Peace Writer of the year (categories for Primary and Secondary-aged young people)
• Young Peace Artist of the year (categories for Primary and Secondary-aged young people)
• Young Global Citizen of the year
• Young Peace Organisation of the year (for larger youth organisations)

It is also acceptable to nominate someone, with their permission.
The closing date for applications is 12^th June, 2023. 

You can find a fuller description of the categories, and the terms and conditions for the Awards here, as well as an application form.

Please send your entries to centre@wcia.org.uk.

Please find below information from the Welsh Government Youth Engagement team about extra support available for the Youth Sector in Wales;

The Minister for Education and Welsh Language has recently agreed to offer further support to the youth work sector to address some of the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis and protect services as we continue to work with the Youth Work Strategy Implementation Board and other stakeholders on developing and progressing the recommendations of the Interim Youth Work Board. These actions will help respond to the changing needs of young people and organisations’ ability to continue to deliver services that best meet those needs, whilst further work is done to advance the Interim Board’s recommendations.

An overview of these changes is provided below. We will be in touch with current grant recipients and other relevant organisations shortly to provide more details on next steps.

 

Strategic Voluntary Youth Work Organisation (SVYWO) Grant

The SVYWO grants were originally awarded in early 2022, and currently run from April 2022-March 2024. We will be offering more support via this grant from April 2023 onwards, as follows:

• Current SVYWO grant recipients will be invited to review their plans for 2023-24 to take into account changing circumstances, demand for services, and address any shift in the needs of young people since bids were submitted in autumn 2021.
• Current SVYWO grant recipients will be invited to apply for continuation of funding for a further year (to March 2025).
• We will open a second round of funding via the SVYWO grant for voluntary youth work organisations who were not successful in their applications for the first round, who were not in a position to bid for the first round, or whose circumstances may have changed and would now wish to bid for funding. This new round is planned to run from April 2023-March 2025.

 

Youth Support Grant

We are planning to make further funding available to local authorities for a two-year period (April 2023-March 2025) via the Youth Support Grant. This additional support  will aim to protect and strengthen partnership working with voluntary organisations and address the challenges mentioned above. A maximum of an additional 5% over and above current allocations will be made available to local authorities for this purpose. Funding will be expected to be focused on delivery of services.

 

Voluntary Sector Support

We will be working with CWVYS to pilot a new sector support scheme for voluntary youth work organisations during 2023-24. This will be focused on providing  organisations with quick and easy access to funding to help alleviate some of the current challenges. Criteria and processes for this scheme will be developed over the next few weeks with the aim of opening the application process in April 2023. More information will be available on this scheme in due course.

 

Workforce development

In light of the Interim Youth Work Board’s recommendation on workforce development and the challenges relating to recruitment, retention and training, additional support is being made available to ETS during 2023-25 to help extend opportunities in this space across the sector. This expansion will help us better understand the key issues relating to workforce development as well as identifying ways to support practitioners in their youth work careers. This work will focus on supplementing and enriching current opportunities. Planning for this work is at an early stage and the sector will be engaged in its development. Further information will be made available in due course.

Here you can find a written statement from Julie Morgan MS, the Deputy Minister for Social Services, on the Publication of the Steering Group’s Report, as part of the Ministerial Review of Play: https://www.gov.wales/written-statement-ministerial-review-play-publication-steering-group-report

The Taith team have now rescheduled the postponed beneficiary sessions to next week.

Please find links to register below if you are able to attend.

Beneficiaries will be provided with information on reporting, making project changes, requesting additional funding and will be shown the members area of the Taith website.

 

Monday 06 March 12:30-1:30 pm (Welsh)

Monday 06 March 4-5 pm (English)

Thursday 09 March 12:30-1:30pm (English)

Just a reminder from us that there are still a couple of Taith events for you to attend before the closing date for Pathway 1 applications on the 16th of March.

The next events are on Tuesday the 7th and Thursday the 9th of March and they are question and answer sessions:

If you’d like to discuss your ideas for an application with the Sector Organising Body for Youth, contact Welsh Centre for International Affairs Taith Coordinator Vicky Court vickycourt@wcia.org.uk

Pathway 1 Q&A session (please click on the dates to be linked to the registration page):

• Tuesday 07 March 2023 12:30-13:30 (English)
• Thursday 09 March 2023 16:00-17:00 (English)

As ever, questions and comments are welcomed in English or Welsh at each event, the language in brackets merely describes the language the event will be conducted in.

You can find a list of resources compiled in one place on our website here:
https://www.cwvys.org.uk/resources/

To CWVYS members and other charities in Wales!

Please see these attachments and the message further below from Jayne Kendall at the Cranfield Trust.

Cranfield Contact Day A4 flyer

Cranfield staff biographies

They are holding a Charity Connect day on the 2nd of March.
This will be a whole day of FREE expert advice for charities.
Register and book an appointment if you or your organization have any advice you’re looking for.

 

With the increased and immediate pressures charities are facing in the current climate we are offering a full day of FREE specialist advice for charities to access the personal support they need during a dedicated telephone appointment.

If you have any burning questions for our team of volunteers please do register too!

Date: Thursday 2 March 2023

Time: Appointments available 9am – 5pm

 

On this dedicated day, charities can book a timeslot for a personal telephone appointment with one of our expert Volunteers or Regional Managers to help address whatever immediate challenge they may be facing.  Appointments will be available throughout the day but will be limited so do not delay!

 

Booking is quick and easy – simply complete our online form and we will do the rest!

 

What can we help with?

Every question is different and we can help with lots of things including (but not limited to):

• Financial planning and strategy
• Governance
• Insolvency
• Leadership
• Change management
• Digital strategy and content
• Cost cutting
• Signposting

 

Or, we can simply provide a sounding board for whatever challenge charities maybe facing.

Best wishes

Jayne Kendall 😊

Regional Manager Wales

2022 marked 75 years of the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS).

Through the year we asked friends of CWVYS, previous staff, Trustees and Presidents past and present if they would be willing to share their recollections of CWVYS over the years.

Our hope was to feature these in a document outlining the history of CWVYS alongside information on key dates and developments in the voluntary youth sector in Wales, the UK and further afield.

Many people kindly shared their reflections and memories with us, and we were privileged to be able to share in these and to compile a 75 year timeline of CWVYS.

Today we are very pleased to share a bilingual booklet which covers CWVYS from 1947 to 2022! We hope our members and colleagues in the youth sector will find it as interesting as we have:

CWVYS ANNIVERSARY BILINGUAL

In due course we will be featuring people’s individual contributions in full, on our website under the History tab.

The CWVYS Safeguarding sub-group received a very informative presentation by Hannah Williams (Improvement & Development Manager at Social Care Wales – SCW).

This document provides an outline of the National Safeguarding Standards: National Safeguarding Training Standards Launch Presentation Bilingual (002) CS (002)

In addition:

• SCW be will be looking into the sufficiency of training available to the third sector and identify any plans they may have in helping to support this. If anyone has specific queries, they can direct them to safeguardingstandards@socialcare.wales

 

The open access Group A e-learning is available here https://learning.nhs.wales/course/view.php?id=368 and SCW is currently working on exporting this to the Social Care Wales website.

 

The training framework will be launched in late Spring. This will outline learning objectives against each group along with guidance on the skills and experience of trainers delivering the learning. Organisations are still able to deliver training in house and often this can be an excellent way of adapting bespoke learning to the nature of the services being delivered.

• Here is a link to the webpage that contains lots of information on the new standards National safeguarding training, learning and… | Social Care Wales

 

• Using this link, Groups summary | Social Care Wales at the top of the page there is an option to view the groups in a table.  This is a useful resource to help organisations consider which group of training different roles might fit into.  It’s also important to remember that little has changed in terms of the content of safeguarding training, there will be some developments building on the latest evidence but much of the existing training content that is of good standard will just be able to be designated as learning resources for the relevant group. The training framework which identifies the learning objectives for each group will make this much clearer and is due out late spring.

 

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (MATERNITY COVER)  (BILINGUAL: WELSH/ENGLISH) 2023/24

 

Hours of work:                                  24 per week

Length of contract:                           1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024                                                 

Salary:                                                 £26,845 pro rata (£17,413 actual)

Accountability:                                  to CWVYS Chief Executive

Place of work:                                   Home-based/flexible (office is in Cardiff Bay)

 

CWVYS is seeking to recruit a part-time Communications Officer, to cover maternity leave of the current postholder.

We are looking for a bilingual (Welsh and English languages), creative and skilled person who will support the communications needs of the voluntary youth work services sector in Wales.

You may be expected to visit our Office in Cardiff Bay from time to time but this is a work from home job and the choice of working days (Monday – Friday) is flexible.

Applicants are invited to register initial interest in this position by e-mailing paul@cwvys.org.uk

A copy of the job description/person specification and application form will then be e-mailed in return.

When completing the application form, candidates will be expected to prove how their experience and skills match the requirements of the role as outlined in the job description and person specification.

Closing time/date for receipt of applications is 10.00am on 10 February 2023.

Applicants selected for interview will be informed of the relevant process in due course.

Thank you in advance for your interest.

 

Taith Pathway 1 is open again for applications! https://www.taith.wales/news/pathway-1-is-back-for-2023/

To support the reopening of the Pathway 1 funding call the Taith team are running a series of online events to support and inform prospective applicants. You can find dates and times below and clicking on the links will take you to the registration page.

 

Introduction to Pathway 1:

Tuesday 24 January 2023 12:30-13:30 (Welsh)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 16:00-17:00 (English)

Thursday 26 January 2023 12:30-13:30 (English)

 

Completing the Pathway 1 2023 Application Form:

Monday 6th February 2023 16:00-17:00 (English)

Tuesday 07 February 2023 12:30-13:30 (Welsh)

Thursday 09 February 2023 12:30-13:30 (English)

Completing the Pathway 1 2023 Calculation Tool:

Wednesday 15 February 2023 16:00-17:00 (English)

Thursday 16 February 2023 12:30-13:30 (English)

Thursday 16 February 2023 16:00-17:00 (Welsh)

 

Pathway 1 Q&A session:

Tuesday 07 March 2023 12:30-13:30 (English)

Thursday 09 March 2023 16:00-17:00 (English)

 

As ever, questions and comments are welcomed in English or Welsh at each event, the language in brackets merely describes the language event will be conducted in.

Duration for all

Approximately 60 minutes

 

You can find a list of resources compiled in one place on our website which we will be updating as this round of funding develops: https://www.cwvys.org.uk/resources/
Pathway 1 will close to applications on the 16th of March.

 

If you have any questions in the meantime, you’re welcome to ask me, Paul@cwvys.org.uk  or kari@bgc.wales or vickycourt@wcia.org.uk

 

For your interest, here is a link to a nice little interview by Nia from the Urdd about the New Zealand trip (funded by Taith) on the Aled Hughes programme, the interview starts around 15.00: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001h3ch

 

The Welsh Government’s Elections Division recently announced they were looking to set up a grant scheme to support activities related to improving democratic engagement across Wales.

This week the team were pleased to reveal that applications are now welcomed from organisations for funding from the “Democratic Engagement Grant”.

Applications are split between those requesting funding under £1000 and those requesting funding over £1000.

Below you can find the link to the website which has all the additional information. Please note the guidance for the grant is contained within the application forms.

Democratic engagement grant | GOV.WALES