Changes to the Community Youth Work Service in Waverley

Overview

Surrey County Council is making changes to the Community Youth Work Service (CYWS) in Waverley.

CYWS helps young people to be more employable by building their resilience, developing their skills and improving their wellbeing through youth work.

Youth work is often delivered from youth centres, but youth workers also work in the places where young people meet, for example in local parks. It is a way of working with young people that is voluntary and helps them to develop their skills, knowledge and confidence so that they can reach their goals. It is available to all young people, especially the ones who need support the most. We will work in partnership with other organisations to provide more activities for young people.

Why Surrey County Council is consulting

There is less money available for Services for Young People overall. This means we need to find ways of delivering youth work that make the most of the money we have. We want to use the money we have for youth work to make the biggest difference to young people. In particular, this means helping them to prepare for work and their adult life. To do this we need to divide the money we have between different parts of Surrey fairly to make sure that the young people who need support the most get it. We want to find out what you think about our plans and your ideas of how we can do things better.

How you can engage in the consultation

The consultation for Waverley has been published on the Surrey Says website . You can quickly and easily provide a response online by following the instructions on the website. https://www.surreysays.co.uk/csf-syp-commissioning-development/changes-to-community-youth-work-in-waverley

The council is also holding a series of public consultation events in each area to better understand the views of communities about our local proposals.

Please note that the public consultation meetings will be held as follows:

  • Haslemere (Wey Centre) – Wednesday 5th August 2015.  Time 19:00 pm to 21:00 pm
  • Farnham (40 Degreez) – Tuesday 11th August 2015.  Time 19:00 pm to 21:00 pm
  • Cranleigh (Cranleigh Youth Centre) – Wednesday 12th August 2015.  Time 19:00 pm to 21:00 pm
  • Godalming (venue tbc) – Monday 17th August 2015.  Time 19:00 pm to 21:00 pm

The consultation in Waverley will be running until 21 August 2015.