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The Integrated Services for Children & Young People (ISCYP) Programme is a major initiative of the West Belfast Partnership. The result of work undertaken by the West Belfast and Greater Shankill Task Force, led by Gerry Adams MP and involving local community activists. Funded through the Integrated Development Fund from OFMDFM and disseminated via DE/BELB this initiative aims to bring together those who provide services which impact on the lives of Children & Young People and their families and will maximise this impact, improve connectivity and enhance integrated working thought specific planned delivery of services and programmes. ISCYP staff will work to ensure children, young people and their families can receive the best possible support services and life opportunities.
ISCYP operates across the Greater Falls, Upper Springfield, Upper Falls and Alternative Education Provision in West Belfast. The teams are delivering services on ‘themed approaches’ in Education & Learner Support, Family Support, Youth Services and Mental Health & Well-being. Through ISCYP we aim to:
- Raise aspirations of our children and young people
- Improve life chances and opportunities
- Increase achievement
- Support commitment to lifelong learning
- Increase employability
The Programme is funded through the Department of Education by the Integrated Development Fund following the work of the West Belfast and Shankill Taskforces and is currently available until March 2011.
The Integrated Services for Children and Young People (ISCYP) Programme works across West Belfast and Greater Shankill to improve the life chances of children and young people.
The programme is managed by Area Partnership Boards working together with Health Action Zone (HAZ), Belfast Education and Library Board (BELB), HSC and organisations based in the local community.
Integrated Services for Children and Young People (ISCYP) programme of work is led by the Belfast Education and Library Board on behalf of the Health Action Zone (HAZ).
ISCYP programme will work on two levels –
- to pilot the delivery of integrated services
- to signpost to all strategic partners that integrated services can work effectively with their target group, moving from an ethos of working in silos and aiming to achieve organisational change for the ultimate benefit of children, families and their communities
A priority for the programme has been the engagement of community, statutory and voluntary agencies. Ward Areas in West Belfast who will benefit from this vital and timely – if not overdue programme are:
Clonard/Falls/Whiterock/UpperSpringfield/Andersonstown/Lenadoon/Suffolk
who have experienced long-standing levels of deprivation. In order to identify local needs and agree appropriate interventions and inputs a Local Implementation Action Group was formed to agree the programme of work.
The agreed proposals form the basis of a Service Level Agreement between Belfast Education and Library Board and West Belfast Partnership Board
