TRANENT SOCIAL INCLUSION PARTNERSHIP

Organisation Aims and Activities

1. Type of organisation

Local authority partnership with local organisations (various)

2. Client Group

Tranent residents, particularly young citizens

3. Secondary advice?

No

4. Aims

Enabling local individuals to realise their full potential and helping them to take a more active role in their community and wider society. Set up to ensure that "..every young person living in Tranent and the Ross High School catchment area is given the opportunity to make a successful transition into adulthood."     Tackling poverty, promoting equality and closing opportunity gaps.
* Co-ordinating service delivery and innovation that focuses on the needs of children and young people.
*Promotion of positive inclusion in school and community
*Prevention of exclusion form health, work, education and housing
*Empowerment of youth within the wider community
*Taking early action to tackle exclusion, wherever it exists for the client group

5. Activities

The Tranent SIP is involved in almost 40 projects. A selection of important ones is given below.

The Family Outreach Support service, the SPLAT learning activities summer programme and the Activ8 group all engage with excluded groups to offer improved opportunities, support active participation and representation.

The Youth Development Fund and the Arts Development programme, incorporating Kick-START gives young people increased opportunities to develop skills and supports them to improve the options available in their community.

Other projects include the Homeless Families Project - a multi-agency group, set up by the SIP and ELC, which sets out to conduct research on the issue of homelessness in the area, Work with tenants and residents associations - to give members youth work skills. Out of school care -the SIP has identified a need for childcare provision and set up an after school club. The Youth Forum -supported by ELC community development and the SIP, the Tranent area Youth Forum has given local youth a voice. The Get Ahead project (GAP) - provides guidance on employment, training and further education opportunities. Gives educational alternatives and additional support to young people in danger of 'dropping out' of school early into unemployment.

6. Information and Advice services

The Tranent SIP is not a housing advice organisation

Contacts and delivery methods

7. Contact details

Tranent Social Inclusion Partnership,
3a High Street,
Tranent,
East Lothian,
EH33 1AA.    Tel:  01875 615 415 Fax:  01875 615 416      e-mail:jryan@eastlothian.gov.uk

8. Service delivery  

    methods

Telephone Advice:  n/a
Appointments:    n/a
Outreach:    n/a
Home Visits: n/a
Out of Hours       n/a
Via e-mail:  n/a

9. Opening Hours

Monday-Thursday 0900-1700, Friday 0900-1600

Staffing, Funding and Training

10. Staffing

6 core staff members

11. Funding

Local Authority

12. Quality Assurance

AS ELC policy

Referrals

13. Formal referral policy - receiving?

n/a

14. Formal referral policy - making?

n/a

15. Informal reciprocal referral arrangements?

n/a

16. Referral procedure

n/a

17. Requirements

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