3.7 Added Value

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Added value headline statement

Investment in Mayesbrook Youth Project generates value well beyond the hours our doors are open on a Tuesday evening. Because our team grew up locally and maintains year-round presence across estates, schools and parks, we act as a trusted bridge between guarded young people and statutory services, a local training ground that turns former youth club members into qualified youth workers, and a local service that aims to reduce anti-social behaviour and school exclusion pressure across the neighbourhood.

Ecosystem connector role and statutory service bridging

Many teenagers who are close to permanent school exclusion or exploitation distrust formal authority figures and disengage from school pastoral offices, social care or clinic-based appointments. We add value across the local youth ecosystem in three ways:

• Two-way pastoral intelligence with local secondary schools: With parent and young person agreement, learning from our mentoring sessions feeds into termly referral and review meetings with two partner secondary schools and the borough’s Early Help team. We share an anonymised termly outcomes summary with both referring schools. The summary is intended to help pastoral teams understand what triggers and support strategies are working outside the classroom.
• Warm handovers into specialist pathways: Our youth workers make warm, accompanied introductions into the LBBD Adolescent Careers Service, CAMHS / adolescent mental health pathways, Jobcentre Plus Youth Hub, and Roding Valley Boxing Club. These introductions are intended to help young people stay connected with support.
• Estate-level community safety impact: Our regular Tuesday evening club presence and paired detached outreach shifts around Mayesbrook Park, Becontree and Gascoigne are credited by local Safer Neighbourhoods policing officers with a noticeable reduction in evening anti-social behaviour call-outs on two target estates.