Vote Youth Development
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For the year ending 30 June 2008
Output expense: Youth Development
Description54
This output expense comprises the following three outputs:
Youth Development Policy Advice
This output provides advice on youth related policies, services and good practice that promotes the Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa. It includes research and analysis of factors that influence young people's access to opportunities for economic and social wellbeing.
Facilitating Young People’s Voices
This output incorporates the work of the Ministry to ensure that young people are able to have input into policy, programme and service development across government.
Enabling Youth Development
The aim of this output is to ensure high quality comprehensive and joined up services for young people in their local communities. This output also includes contracting for youth development services, which are funded through Non-Departmental Output Expenses and purchased from third parties.
These outputs contribute to the Ministry of Social Development’s outcomes for Children and Young People by improving outcomes for young people at local, regional, and national levels.
Scope
The scope of this output expense includes:
Youth Development Policy Advice
- Providing advice to the Minister, Cabinet and Cabinet Committees, Select Committees, interdepartmental committees, and other government agencies.
- Building a knowledge base through enhancing collaboration across the research sector, as well as researching and analysing the factors that influence young people’s access to opportunities for economic and social wellbeing.
Facilitating Young People’s Voices
- Increasing young people’s opportunities for, and participation in the central and local government decision making so as to ensure that government is aware of the intentions and aspirations of young people.
- Promoting and facilitating youth development and youth participation at a regional and local level, including delivering events and workshops that assist local government, youth, and social development providers to implement the Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa.
Enabling Youth Development
- Working to ensure all young people can develop life skills that help them build resilience and prepare for life as independent adults through targeting support, particularly for at-risk young people, to key transition points.
- Ensuring that at the national and local level there is a strong and effective youth development sector, which is able to provide opportunities to improve youth development outcomes for young people, and contributing to local services mapping.
- Assessing, negotiating, monitoring, paying, and reviewing services that help young people achieve sustainable education, training and employment, and where appropriate, taking corrective action consistent with the Services for Young People policy and criteria.
- Purchasing services for young people and administering the Youth Development Partnership Fund, consistent with policy and criteria.
Performance Information (Youth Development Policy)
| Result 2005/2006 | Performance Measure | Standard 2006/2007 | Standard 2007/2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Processes are complied with | Process An audit shows that the Ministry of Social Development’s policy processes as outlined in the Quality Management System have been followed in at least:55 |
90% of cases | 90% of cases |
| Revised measure in 2006/2007 | Technical robustness An external independent review of the Ministry of Youth Development’s policy advice confirms that it meets acceptable standards based on pre-determined criteria: |
Standard met | Standard met56 |
| New measure in 2006/2007 | The percentage of Ministerial drafts provided for the Minister’s signature where error could have been avoided will be no less than: | 95% | 95% |
| 100% | The percentage of Parliamentary Question drafts provided for the Minister’s signature where error could have been avoided will be no less than: | 100% | 100% |
| Revised measure in 2006/2007 | Timeliness Advice will be delivered in accordance with the work programme agreed with the Minister of Youth Affairs: |
Standard met | Standard met 57 |
| Revised measure in 2006/2007 | The percentage of draft Ministerial replies to be completed within 20 working days of receipt by the Ministry, unless otherwise agreed: | 95% | 95% |
| Revised measure in 2006/2007 | Information for oral parliamentary questions will be provided to the Minister’s office within the timeframe they specify: | 100% | 100% |
| New measure in 2006/2007 | The percentage of written parliamentary questions will be answered within the time as specified by the Minister’s office: | 100% | 100% |
Performance Information (Facilitating Young People’s Voices)
| Result 2005/2006 | Performance Measure | Standard 2006/2007 | Standard 2007/2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New measure in 2006/2007 | Quality Effective processes are applied to ensuring stakeholder participation in youth development activities: |
100% | 100% |
| 100% | Timeliness Services will be delivered to the Minister of Youth Affairs within negotiated deadlines: |
100% | 100% |
Performance Information (Enabling Youth Development)
| Result 2005/2006 | Performance Measure | Standard 2006/2007 | Standard 2007/2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised measure in 2006/2007 | Quantity External audits of consistency with policy guidelines and criteria undertaken of service providers: |
3 | 3 |
| Revised measure in 2006/2007 | Quality Purchase services for young people and administer the Youth Development Partnership Fund in accordance with agreed policy guidelines and criteria: |
100% | 100% |
| Revised measure in 2006/2007 | Timeliness The percentage of cases for which payments to providers are made on time (according to contract arrangements) will be no less than: |
95% | 95% |
Departmental Output Expense
Vote Youth Development
| Financial Performance (Figures are GST exclusive) | 2006/2007 | 2007/2008 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budgeted $000 | Estimated Actual $000 | Budgeted $000 |
|
| Revenue | |||
| Crown | 5,499 | 5,499 | 5,614 |
| Department | 188 | 188 | 157 |
| Other | 170 | 170 | 120 |
| Total Revenue | 5,857 | 5,857 | 5,891 |
| Total Expense | 5,857 | 5,857 | 5,891 |
| Net Surplus/(Deficit) | - | - | - |
54 In 2007/2008, three output expenses: Youth Development Policy Advice; Facilitating Young People’s Voices; and Enabling Youth Development have been amalgamated into one output expense Youth Development.
55 The quality characteristics in the Ministry’s Quality Management System are based on decision making (defining, debating and deciding) and communication (capturing issues, convincing and confirming).
56 The standard for this measure is based on a continuum of: standard not met; standard met; and standard exceeded.
57 Standard met indicates that we received confirmation from the Minister that advice has been delivered in accordance with a work programme.
