Events

NCVYS organises events on an ongoing basis for both members and non-members. Members are given opportunities to participate in events, including bi-annual peer support residentials for workers in local networks and quarterly meetings of chief officers of NCVYS members. These provide participants with in-depth updates on policy developments in the sector as well as case studies showcasing good practice and discussions on relevant timely topics.

Current Events

Consultation event on children, young people and families services

Workforce event: Keep the faith; Inter-faith seminar

Workforce event: Eye of the Storm seminar

Youth justice peer learning session

Policy classes

Unemployment  roundtable

What's your priority for children, young people and families?        

You have been invited to attend a free consultation workshop in either London or Birmingham around how you feel about current services and what the future services should be for children, young people and families.   

As part of the Overarching Strategic Partnership work, NCVYS are working with the Department for Education to identify issues and improvements in services for children, young people and families. The most recent plan will come to an end March 2012 and we want your opinions on what the priorities should be for 2012-2015. Are you satisfied with what’s provided or could these be better?

Review, share and feed into the Governments future plans through discussions and workshops.

The event will allow you to:

• Explore current local services and priorities
• Express your experiences and viewpoints on your local services 
• Suggest ways to improve existing services to be fed back to Government

Keep the faith; Inter-faith seminar (Catalyst event)

(Monday 26 March 2012, 10-4pm, Bullring, Birmingham, B5 4BU)
This is a one-day, multi-sector, inter-faith seminar for facilitators, trainers and youth practitioners working with children, young people and families. The seminar seeks to explore challenges and opportunities for organisations and practitioners working within and around their faith-based youth work context and to promote the value of inter-faith approaches and activity across the youth work space. We are inviting a series of speakers to offer insightful perspectives, evidence and ideas that can help to inform and stimulate thinking and discussion across the seminar. A selection of hands on practical sessions which will both inform and challenge practice and organisational opportunities. We hope to provide a supportive, inclusive and progressive space for effective dialogue across the diversity of faith-based youth work perspectives. To read more about the event and to register please click here or contact maureen@ncvys.org.uk for more information.

Overarching Strategic Partnership events

Over the coming weeks and months, NCVYS, as part of the Department for Education's Overarching Strategic Partnership, are pleased to be offering a number of FREE events to support those working in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector with children, young people and families. The Eye of the Storm seminar is also open to the statutory sector.

Justice for Youth and Free from Trouble:
(Wednesday 29 February, 11 – 1pm, followed by lunch, NCVYS offices, London)
This peer learning session explores youth justice, early intervention and the riots with Leap Confronting Conflict and Just for Kids Law.
For further information and to book, please click here and send your completed booking form to takita@ncvys.org.uk  

Unemployment Roundtable:
(28 February, 10 - 2pm, - Manchester Central Premier Inn (formally GMEX), M2 3DW)
The unemployment roundtable will share knowledge of Rathbone’s perspective on youth unemployment and also offers an opportunity to share peer learning on approaches to youth unemployment across the children, young people and families sector.
To read more about the event and to book please click here.

Policy classes:
(NCVYS, 3rd Floor, Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London, N1 9LH, from 10 - 1.30pm)
Four policy classes will support the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector serving children, young people and families. The events, looking at prominent areas of policy development - localism (21 February), education (8 March), safeguarding (15 March) and benefit reforms (22 March)  - bring together VCSE organisations to learn from each other about the impact of policy initiatives. They will enable organisations to explore planning and service design and develop responses which will be fed back to Government.
To read more about the events and to book please click here.

Eye of the Storm seminar:
(20 March - St Laurence Church, Friar Street, Reading, RG1 1DA)
A one-day, multi-sector health and wellbeing seminar for service planners and practitioners working with children, young people and families. This is a time of unprecedented change for health services and those working with children, young people and their families. Local health service design and delivery is going through a radical overhaul. At the same time those working with children, young people and families are also experiencing significant reductions in funding, forcing them to reconfigure services and their workforce at a time of growing need.
To read more about the event and to book please click here.

Regional Strategy Consultation 

In November and December 2011, NCVYS held regional strategy consultations. We will be revealing further information about our work to devise our next strategy soon. To read more about the events please click here.

NCVYS and Clinks event on Youth Justice

Clinks and NCVYS, who are working with the Department for Education’s Overarching Strategic Partnership, would like to invite you to a discussion on Youth Justice and Early Intervention on 22 November in Leeds. The purpose of the discussion will be open up a dialogue between organisations around the changes, challenges and issues within the Youth Justice System. Please could you confirm your attendance to Sarah Hadley, Sarah.Hadley@clinks.org. >> Read more about the event here.

Positive for Youth - Young People’s Event

The Positive for Youth planning group, invite you to have your say on the Department for Education’s (DfE) new Positive for Youth Policy. This is your chance to shape the future of youth policy and effect change. The event is being organised by young people for young people on Tuesday 25 October 2011 at Proud2, O2 Greenwich, 10.30 – 4.30pm.  Registration will start at 9.30am. >> Read more about this story here.

NCVYS Annual Conference 2011

High profile speakers, including the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, Tim Loughton MP and Stephen Greene, Chief Executive of the Orange RockCorps, will debate and discuss topics around localism, the National Citizen Service and youth participation with challenging and thought provoking conversations about the role of young people in a changing society! Join us on 2 November 2011 in London. >> Read more about this story here. 

NCVYS & Department for Education bring together youth sector and young people at Positive for Youth Summit

The NCVYS and DfE Youth Summit has seen youth organisations come together with ministers to discuss and debate the key issues affecting young people. It was also an opportunity for these youth organisations to explore the possibility of partnerships to strengthen the youth sector. Ministers who spoke at the event included, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Children and Families Minister Tim Loughton. >> Read more about the event here including the speeches, and twitter and facebook feedback.

Youth Strategy Board meetings

Youth Strategy Board meetings (formerly known as Chief Officers’ meetings) are an opportunity for all NCVYS members chief officers to come together to explore areas of interest to NCVYS members. There is often an input from civil servants in relevant government departments. >> See the latest slides from the June and February 2011 meetings here.

In 2010 NCVYS held a successful Annual Conference and Speaking Out conference, find out more below:

Leading figures in voluntary and community sector come together for Speaking Out

Over a hundred members of the voluntary and community youth sector were joined by high profile speakers, including Cabinet Office Deputy Director Helen Stephenson at the Speaking Out 2010 annual conference in Westminster on Thursday 9 December. The event explored how members of the voluntary and community sector are coming under increased focus to deliver projects as part of the Big Society. >> Read more about this story here.

Foresight Event

During 2010 NCVYS Policy Officer Dom Weinberg worked in partnership with NCVO Third Sector Foresight  to conduct research into the drivers (trends and forces) that could impact on the voluntary and community youth sector over the next 5-10 years. This included an event in November. >> See the slides from the event here.

Envoy 

NCVYS's youth forum ENVOY is equally active in organising events such as their bi-annual residential and their nine regional and one national Young Partners Awards. For more information on ENVOY events, please turn to the Youth Participation section.

Members and other interested parties also have opportunities to share their views and contribute to consultation responses at round table discussions and seminars organised around specific policy themes such as the Ten Year Youth Strategy, the Drugs Strategy, ContactPoint, vetting and barring, workforce development, placeshaping, community cohesion, the envrionment, social exclusion and more.

For more information on upcoming events, have a look at the Events Calendar or contact the NCVYS office on T: 020 7278 1041 if you have any additional questions.