What was the point of this project?
With pathfinder projects for children's trusts under way and local authorities moving towards unified children and young people's services, it was felt a bit of research was needed to find out how youth services were placed in this shifting picture.
How was involvement measured?
The National Youth Agency devised a self-assessment form that enabled local authorities to rate themselves as emerging, established or advanced against a range of indicators. They included how well frontline services are integrated, how well assessment and information-sharing processes are integrated, and how much young people are involved.
One of the indicators is core training: an emerging service is willing to take part in core training with other professionals, in an established service core training with other professionals is already taking place, and an advanced service is leading core training with other professionals.
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