London Councils Grants Executive
Improve educational attainment of disadvantaged
children and young people (service 19)
Report by:
Katy Makepeace
Date:
7 December 2007
Contact
Officer:
Katy Makepeace
Telephone:
020 7934 9800
Job title:
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Item
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Policy and Grants Manager
[email protected]
Summary
This report makes recommendations about the 70 Stage One proposals London Councils
received for this service. 13 organisations are recommended to be invited to develop Stage Two
funding proposals. 57 proposals are not recommended.
Recommendations
That members agree:
 To invite the 13 organisations listed below to develop Stage Two funding proposals
 Windsor Fellowship
 Roma Support Group
 Action for Social Integration
 Kingston & Merton Education Business Partnership (KMEBP)
 Business in the Community (The London Accord)
 Toc H
 Somali Youth Union in UK
 Ebony Education Community Interest Company
 Volunteer Reading Help
 Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Ltd
 Havering Motorvations Ltd
 WHCM
 School-Home Support (SHS)
 That the 57 organisations listed in Table 2 should not be invited to develop Stage Two
funding proposals, subject to consideration of any rights to reply.
Introduction
1. The Grants Executive agreed the context for the specification to improve educational
attainment of disadvantaged children and young people at its meeting held on 17 July
2007. £580,000 is available per year.
2. The Grants Executive agreed that the following outcomes should be achieved through
commissioning a service to improve educational attainment of disadvantaged children and
young people.
Outcome 1: Children and young people have increased self-confidence and
increased ability to deal with significant life changes and challenges.
Outcome 2: Children and young people achieve stretching national
educational standards. Harder to reach children and young people develop
basic skills and progress towards formal qualifications
Outcome 3: Parents are better able to support their child’s education,
including knowledge of where to seek additional support.
Outcome 4: Children and young people attend and enjoy school or college.
Outcome 5: Equality for disadvantaged groups is actively promoted through
the service delivery, marketing, evaluation and management of the proposed
service.
The specification was advertised on 31 July 2007 and 70 proposals were received. London
Councils officers assessed the funding proposals against London Councils’ Stage One
funding criteria.
Funding proposals
3. Table One A includes the 13 organisations recommended to be invited to submit a Stage
Two application.
Table One A
Summary of organisations recommended to be invited to submit Stage Two funding
proposals
London
Organisation
Councils
Reference
Assessment
Score
Request
FYE
(£)
5730
Windsor Fellowship
160
74,032
5803
Roma Support Group
160
42,917
5843
Somali Youth Union in UK
160
51,000
5518
140
21,429
5577
Action for Social Integration
Kingston & Merton Education Business Partnership
(KMEBP)
140
198,200
5660
Business in the Community (The London Accord)
140
120,000
5818
Toc H
140
135,000
5880
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Ltd
140
24,241
5372
Ebony Education Community Interest Company
130
142,162
5734
Volunteer Reading Help
120
36,400
5385
Havering Motorvations Ltd
120
196,000
5461
WHCM
115
68,071
5507
School-Home Support (SHS)
110
404,189
4. Table One B includes the organisation project descriptions for the 13 organisations
recommended to proceed to Stage Two. The table includes the total funding request, the
assessment score and conditions that should be attached to the invitation to proceed to Stage
Two.
5. Table Two includes the 57 organisations that are not recommended at Stage One together
with a brief description of why the funding proposal should not be taken forward.
6. The recommended package covers all boroughs. The recommended package represents less
funding than the allocated level in three boroughs. Officers will work with organisations to
ensure the borough spread represents a closer match to the level of funding per borough at
Stage Two. All recommended bids scored highly. The total funding requested for the service
is over £4.4 million. Officers have recommended a package of bids to progress to stage two
that totals £1,513,641.
7. Recommended proposals cover a wide range of services including, workshops, advocacy,
outreach, 1:1s, role-play, volunteering opportunities, mediation, support with reading/ homework,
mentoring/ activities to improve aspirations, life skills sessions, and careers advice. The
recommended projects also include workshop for parents and support to parents to make links with
schools.
Table One B - Organisations recommended to be invited to submit Stage Two funding proposals
London
Councils
Reference
Organisation
Assessment
Score
5730
Windsor
Fellowship
(WF)
160
Request
Yearly
(£)
74,032
Total
request
(£)
296,128
Project description
Reason for recommendation
and Conditions
WF is seeking funding to deliver its AIMS Programme
(Achievement, Improvement and Motivation for
Students) to young learners in 10 London Boroughs. The
programme aims to:
- increase confidence and self-esteem
- develop problem solving skills
- improve GCSE grades
The organisation has scored
highly. The evaluation of the
impact of the project includes a
range of reporting including
self-reporting and monitoring
by staff and professionals. The
proposal demonstrated the
organisation’s experience of
working with children and
young people to raise
attainment. The proposal
offers value for money. The
proposal will target minority
ethnic groups within the Black
category; pupils of mixed
White and Black Caribbean
heritage; white boys,
Bangladeshi/Pakistani pupils
and children in care.
The programme will consist of fourteen workshops
delivered during school hours that will include:
- Introduction and effective communication skills
- Self-esteem and self-confidence
- Citizenship
- Valuing diversity
- Conflict resolution
- Race, gender and identity
- Problem solving skills
- Self-empowerment
- Learning styles
- Study skills
- Healthy lifestyles
- Preparing CV's and application forms
- Interview skills
- Action planning and programme evaluation
The overall aim is to impact on the numbers gaining five
or more A-C GCSE grades.
The AIMS programme will include one workshop for
parents of learners. It will provide parents with
information about the AIMS programme and the
knowledge and skills needed to support their children
and engage with schools more effectively.
WF recognises the importance of qualifications and is
gaining accreditation for the programme. The AIMS
National Open College Network Programme will enable
Conditions:
The project should provide
further information on how it
will target its service users.
At Stage Two, organisations
are asked to provide more
detail on how they will deliver
London Councils outcomes,
the proposal should expand its
answer to include how it will
target the equalities groups
highlighted in the proposal.
The organisation would benefit
from providing further clarity on
indicators for Outcome Two
and more detail with regards to
London
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Reason for recommendation
and Conditions
WF to make it possible for the work undertaken by the
learners to be formally recognised.
parent referrals (Outcome
Three).
Roma Support Group request funding to continue
developing its Roma Education Support Project for the
next four years. The Project Worker and two volunteers
will work from its office in Newham with emphasis on
home and school visits.
The organisation has scored
highly. The organisation has
demonstrated its experience of
working with the target group.
The proposal sets out realistic
annual targets that are relevant
to delivering London Councils
outcomes. A range of support
has been outlined. The project
will target Roma refugee and
migrant children and young
people aged 5 – 22 years,
focusing on SEN children,
young mothers and the
permanently excluded.
(£)
5803
Roma Support
Group
160
42,917
171,670
The Project includes: a/ advice/ advocacy for Roma
children in education, (tackling bullying, racism, truancy,
negotiating supplementary teaching support, school
welfare, promoting children's well-being, etc.); b/ working
with parents to promote value of education and ensure
school registration; c/ working with schools to facilitate
effective communication with parents and children; d/
supporting Roma children/ youth in their academic
progress; e/ promoting further education and vocational
training; f/ promoting Roma culture by organising
workshops for pupils and teachers; g/ internal and
external referrals of children to other services; h/
influencing policy makers and sharing models of good
practice by networking, attending conferences and
seminars.
The project will benefit 120 children annually from 6
boroughs and it will be delivered in Roma, Polish,
Slovak, Russian and Serbo-Croatian.
The Project Worker will spend weekly: 24 hours advocacy and outreach; 6 hours - follow-up case-work; 3
hours - networking, workshops, conferences; 3 hours supporting volunteers, supervisions, monitoring.
5843
Somali Youth
Union in UK
160
51,000
204,000
The Project will target disadvantaged Somali children
and young people between 5 and 16 years old, recently
arrived and/or are have poor academic backgrounds or
in danger of 'falling out' of education; their parents/
The organisation has scored
highly. The project will target
disadvantaged Somali children
and young people between 5
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carers, and liaison with relevant statutory services. The
project will:
 effectively support disadvantaged and
academically underperforming children through
conducting supplementary classes and
homework clubs and to organise guidance and
advice sessions
 hold two workshops annually on raising
awareness and perception of Somali youth on
crime prevention, bullying and organising
weekend sport activities to improve their self
confidence and self-esteem
 hold quarterly meetings between parents and
schools to enhance and support the parents'
understanding and awareness in their children's
educational needs and where to seek further
additional support
 extra support and information to very recently
arrived families to have access to all information
emanating from schools
 celebrate, recognise and reward student's
achievements with their parents at the end of the
academic year
and 16 years, recently arrived
and/or have poor academic
backgrounds or in danger of
'falling out' of education and
their parents
(£)
5518
Action for
Social
Integration
140
21,429
85,718
The service will be run from the organisation’s premises
in Southall and provided by a coordinator, qualified staff
and volunteers. Support will be offered in Somali, Arabic
and English both at the centre and out at local schools
and colleges.
This service will target African and Caribbean
parents/carers, and school children aged 8-16 in Enfield
and Haringey and will be provided by a community
development worker and 30 volunteer mentors each
year.
The project will deliver:
1. Volunteering: The project will arrange and provide
volunteer placements at a community centre and at other
organisations and service providers including statutory
Conditions:
In Stage Two the organisation
needs to provide further detail
on how service users will
access the centre in which the
service is delivered and how
the organisation will overcome
any barriers faced by children
and young people in accessing
the centre.
The organisation has scored
highly .The proposal offers
value for money. The proposal
demonstrates an
understanding of its target
group's needs.
Conditions:
The organisation should
explain what activities it will
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and voluntary organisations (GPs, health centres, NHS,
libraries, leisure centres, organising festivals,
participation in research, refugee community
organisations (RCOs), charity shops).
undertake to raise the
confidence of its younger
service users as providing
volunteer placements may not
be appropriate. It should also
consider its ability to effectively
monitor some of its indicators
for example, liaison with
schools to collate monitoring
information. The organisation
would benefit from providing
further detail in terms of
Outcome Five which relates to
equalities. London Councils
Funding will represent an
increase of more than 33% in
the organisation's external
funding. At stage two the
organisation should outline
how it will mange the increased
funding.
(£)
2. Parenting Seminars: The project will organise
education and parenting seminars to increase parents'
skills and knowledge about support of their children's
education including awareness about the UK education
system.
3. Homework clubs, mentoring and advice: The project
will organise and facilitate after school and Saturday
homework clubs to help pupils undertake their school
work (homework/coursework), and provide
supplementary classes in basic skills. Face-to-face and
online mentoring and advice will be provided by local
university volunteer students, teachers and African and
Caribbean mentors.
4. Mediation: The project will liaise with schools and
families for resolving attendance issues and difficulties
between home and school, encourage communication,
identify issues, explore options and assists mutual
problem solving including tackling bullying, provision for
pupils with additional support needs, school exclusion,
and anti-social behaviour problems.
5577
Kingston &
Merton
Education
Business
Partnership
(KMEBP)
140
198,200
792,800
KMEBP will provide mentoring for young people at risk to
raise attainment, reduce the rates of truancy/exclusions,
raise self-esteem/aspirations and develop
social/emotional/behavioural skills. It will use community
volunteers, trained and supported by KMEBP, meeting
mentees one hour weekly, and will work closely with
statutory and voluntary partners. Mentoring will take
place in school/college, or in another safe place.
Clients will lead the development of their individual
support package - varying from group work for study
The organisation has scored
highly. The proposal
demonstrates the
organisation’s experience of
delivering services to children
and young people at risk of
poor educational attainment.
The project will target
underachieving children and
young people and
parents/carers from all target
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skills to 1:1 sessions that may continue for two or more
years. The project will also offer key working for young
people with complex lives - from support in accessing
additional support from statutory or voluntary agencies,
to facilitating communication between parents/mentees
and/or between families/schools.
groups including, BAME
groups, children with SEN,
children in care and white boys
from deprived backgrounds.
(£)
The activities aim to raise self esteem and aspirations,
improve knowledge of business culture, develop social
skills in a business environment, and provide
supplementary education to parents. One manager will
work in partnership with schools and Education Business
Partnerships to deliver the programme, guided by a
steering group of blue-chip BAME business leaders,
based on third party research on target group.
Conditions:
The organisation should
provide further detail at Stage
Two in relation to the parents'
home visits, cultural/ other
support workshops and self
esteem workshops, and how it
will successfully recruit
mentors. The organisation
needs to provide further clarity
in terms of the referral
agencies it will work with and
provide evidence that it will be
able to correlate sufficient
data. Officers note the higher
cost of the project in
comparison to other projects
recommended to Stage Two.
London Councils may not be
able to recommend the project
at Stage Two at the current
level of funding requested as
part of a pattern of pan-London
coverage.
The organisation has scored
highly. The project will focus on
all minority ethnic groups within
the Black category, pupils of
Mixed White and Black
Caribbean heritage,
Bangladeshi and Pakistani
pupils.
The project will deliver:
Conditions:
The team will work from the organisation’s Merton office
and will go out to schools, homes and other locations
across south London. The team will include a Head of
Mentoring, a Project Manager, two Mentoring
Coordinators and 50 volunteers, supported by the Chief
Executive. The team will also provide
mediation/advocacy support to parents/carers and
communities, using workshops, and home visits to
improve cultural knowledge and support parents'/carers'
understanding of how best to support their children's
education.
5660
Business in
the Community
(The London
Accord)
140
120,000
480,000
London
Councils
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(£)
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DVD-based education pack (DVDedupack) of
BAME role-models to promote social inclusion.
Updated biannually, promoted to all London
schools.
BAME employee volunteers in the identified
deprived boroughs with high BAME population.
Career awareness and employability skills
workshop
Role model presentations
Mentoring: 1-1, group mentoring and
eMentoring.
Workshops at businesses to learn about careers
and meet BAME professionals at work
Work-shadowing BAME professionals
Presentations at school events where parents
are present to enable support for their children's
aspirations.
Business social events for pupils to learn
professional social skills
MERLIN (Minority Ethnic Role Models for
Learning and Inspiration) Student Council for
student leadership and programme development
Conferences for business and school leadership
to share best practice
Targeted marketing materials
The organisation should
provide further clarity in
relation to Outcome One and
Outcome Two with particular
reference to how it will monitor
children and young people’s
progress with basic skills. The
organisation needs to expand
its answer in relation to
ensuring all equalities groups
are able to access the project.
The organisation should send
in a Memorandum of
Association that is clearly
dated.
BITC has already proven delivery at these levels for
MERLIN which has helped London raise BAME
achievement and increase employability.
5818
Toc H
140
135,000
540,000
TOC H will offer a variety of programmes aimed at
assorted age groups and tempered according to the
needs of the young people. Sessions will include
different learning mediums such as written work, group
work, presentations and role play activities. In addition
to accredited outcomes, young people will develop
communication and team working skills needed for
holistic personal, academic and career development.
The organisation has scored
highly. The proposal
addressed the outcomes
criteria well. The organisation
will target a range of equalities
groups, highlighted in the
service specification including
NEETs (not in education,
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The organisation will provide accredited courses in
Personal Development (covering subject areas such as
'Who Am I?', 'What's Your Plan?', 'Attitude and
Assertiveness', 'Change', 'Anger Management', 'Anxiety
Disorders', 'Prejudice, Stereotypes and Discrimination',
'Alcohol and Drugs’), accredited courses in 'Employability
and Basic Skills' (covering CV writing, interview skills,
recognising achievements and visits to local
businesses), 'Street Dance' workshops (offering the
opportunity to for young people to express themselves
through dance), workshops on subjects such as 'Gangs,
Guns and Knives' (to draw attention to the increasing
problem of violence in London and focusing on ways for
young people to deal with life's conflicts and challenges)
and drama workshops to increase young people's
confidence and build awareness of the creative
industries.
5880
Lyric Theatre
Hammersmith
Ltd
140
24,241
96,966
The organisation will also offer opportunities for
residential retreats and outward-bound activities,
including to the Toc H campsite within easy reach of
London.
START is a unique education programme for
disadvantaged young Londoners aged 13 to 19. The aim
of the programme is to provide young people with high
quality literacy and numeracy education embedded in
stimulating arts projects. Through this approach, the
project re-engages young people with the learning
process and crucially enables them to gain national
qualifications in literacy and numeracy. These
qualifications coupled with extensive support from
outside agencies ensure young people have access to
further education and training.
The Lyric have a long-standing commitment to this
project. Each year will involve three terms of activity
broken down into 180 sessions benefiting over 120
young people each year. Activity is lead by a dedicated
employment or training),
gypsy/Roma, travellers of Irish
heritage, pupils from Black
minority ethnic groups, pupils
of mixed White and Black
Caribbean heritage,
Bangladeshi and Pakistani
pupils, pupils with ESOL and
SEN needs and children in
care.
Conditions:
The proposal would benefit
from inclusion of annual
targets in relation to the
delivery of London Councils
outcomes.
The organisation has scored
highly. The organisation will
cover literacy and numeracy.
The project will be delivered to
a range of target groups
including NEET (not in
employment, education or
training) including refugee and
asylum seekers, BAME,
English as a second
language, offenders, exoffenders, children in care and
with special educational needs
and children and young people
with a disability.
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Project Manager, a Basic Skills Tutor, Peer Mentors and
a variety of Artists.
Conditions
Indicators and annual targets
need to be clearly defined at
Stage Two, together with clear
details on how the organisation
will measure the impact of its
proposed activities.
Additionally, the organisation
will need to provide a signed
copy of their constitution. The
organisation should structure
its answer to the outcomes
question by structuring their
answer against each of
London Councils outcomes.
The organisation has scored
highly. It has demonstrated
experience of working with
Black Caribbean children and
their families, mixed raced
children and their families and
BAME children in care.
(£)
Last year the Lyric piloted the START project and have
reported a large increase in the reading and numeracy
levels of beneficiaries.
5372
Ebony
Education
Community
Interest
Company
130
142,162
568,648
Ebony Education Community Interest Company will
provide: additional supplementary learning support in
mathematics, English and science and creative studies
for children 5 to 16 years.
A parenting skills programme will also be provided to
teach parents which will show them how to improve the
educational performance of their children using the 11
step programme developed by Ebony Education. Ebony
has already run this programme at: University of
Greenwich, Lewisham Council, Ashmount School and for
families with children who have sickle cell anaemia.
The organisation will run a youth empowerment
programme consisting of workshops on youth themes
such as: peer mentoring, setting goals, dealing with
bullying and citizenship. Ebony would also like to stage a
theatre-in-education programme to raise the awareness
in the BME communities of issues affecting them and
strategies for empowering them. This small production,
entitled, Voices of the Estate, will target lone and
teenage parents on disadvantaged estates.
Ebony currently runs an online support which supports
Conditions:
The organisation needs to
refer to the SMART criteria
when addressing the outcomes
question at Stage Two,
including indicators. The
proposal is at least 10 per cent
over the amount of funding
available for one of the
boroughs it proposes to work
in (Hammersmith). The
organisation needs to ensure
its borough spread does not
exceed the maximum borough
levels set out in the service
specification. The organisation
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the educational needs of BME children who have been
excluded from school and children attending full time
school. This service will be expanded to include teaching
resources for schools and parents.
needs to provide accounts
signed by its accountant.
Funding requested would
reflect an increase of more
than 33 per cent in the
organisation's external funding.
At Stage Two it should explain
how it will manage this
increase in grants income.
The organisation has scored
highly. The organisation will
provide a range of activities
providing a holistic approach to
education attainment. This
includes practical skills, literacy
and numeracy, ICT, health and
social emotional development.
The project has highlighted
how it will measure the change
in service users. The
organisation will target a range
of equalities groups including
special education needs,
children in care, White & Black
Caribbean, Black, Pakistani,
Traveller of Irish heritage,
Bangladeshi, ESOL, BAMER.
(£)
5385
Havering
Motorvations
Ltd
120
196,000
196,000
Havering Motorvations will deliver a holistic learning
programme to 100 disadvantaged, marginalised, hard to
reach young people each year, enabling them to qualify
to National Open College Network (NOCN)
qualifications. Activities will include:
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1,800 trade skills sessions, learning motor
mechanics and construction skills; providing a
focus to learning, social development, raising
employability.
360 basic skills sessions in numeracy, literacy
(including ESOL), ICT, improving qualifications.
72 life skills sessions, teenage pregnancy,
sexual health, smoking substance/alcohol
misuse, anger management, conflict resolution.
36 outward bound activities, building team skills,
social and communication skills, trust, working
towards personal goals.
72 volunteering bicycle refurbishment sessions,
facilitating better community integration, altering
community perception, learning new skills.
72 nutrition/fitness sessions, tackling obesity,
improving health, well-being, leading to better
academic attainment, self esteem and life
chances.
72 careers advice and guidance sessions,
proactive job placement programme raising
employment aims and life direction.
Conditions:
The organisation would benefit
from providing clearer
indicators under outcomes 3
and 5. The organisation should
provide further detail on how it
will target and deliver services
to children with special
education needs. The
organisation should also
include further detail of the
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Supporting parents/carers to improve their children's
learning and life chances through mediation, via child
review meetings.
partnership agencies that
parents will be referred to and
what support they will offer.
Raising self esteem, confidence, social skills, behaviour,
knowledge and life chances through workshop learning
and activity programme.
The organisation should also
provide further detail relating to
the other external funding
utilised in delivering the
project. The project is at least
10 per cent over the amount of
funding available for the
boroughs it proposes to work
in. The organisation needs to
ensure that the borough
spread it proposes at Stage
Two does not exceed the
maximum borough levels
outlined in the service
specification. The organisation
needs to submit signed audited
accounts for the period ending
in 2006. Officers note the
higher cost of the project in
comparison to other projects
recommended to Stage Two.
London Councils may not be
able to recommend the project
at Stage Two at the current
level of funding requested.
(£)
Delivered by experienced, highly qualified staff (NVQ4),
making learning balanced and enjoyable, with high
attendance figures
5734
Volunteer
Reading Help
120
36,400
145,603
The project will recruit volunteers to provide reading
mentoring support. The work will be managed by a
Volunteer Service Manager (VSM) based in one of seven
branches across London. The VSM will be supported by
a Branch Committee, composed of local individuals and
have access to a London Regional Manager as well as
core support provided by VRH which includes
Fundraising, Communications, HR and Finance.
The organisation demonstrated
experience of working with
children and young people to
raise literacy and showed an
awareness of the needs of
children for whom English is
not their first language. The
organisation will deliver to all
minority ethnic groups within
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28 volunteers will receive comprehensive training,
delivered by the VSM which is endorsed by the DfES.
After completing initial training, the BME Reading
Mentors will be placed in local schools. Each of them will
work with 3 children twice a week, one hour and a half
each time. 84 children will benefit from increased reading
skills each year of the project.
the Black category, pupils of
Mixed White and Black
Caribbean heritage,
Bangladeshi and Pakistani
pupils.
(£)
The focus will be on individuals whom the schools
identify as requiring additional help to increase levels of
basic reading, confidence and ultimately educational
attainment.
Additionally, five modular training sessions will be offered
to the parents/carers of the children to enable them to
offer home based reading support.
5461
WHCM
115
68,071
272,284
WHCM are seeking funding to expand its service and
work in eight schools in Newham, Waltham Forest and
Hackney, and to develop the range of therapeutic and
support services it provides for children, young people,
parents/carers and school staff. The service will be
provided by two Service Co-ordinators, one Lead
Therapist and a team of 10 volunteers/trainees.
The integrated approach is an effective way to support
children, young people and their families, and to raise
awareness of mental health issues. The organisation will
deliver:
Emotional literacy workshops - enable children to identify
and express their emotional experience and help them
form better relationships with their peers and families.
 Individual counselling - helps children/young
people form trusting relationships and is
effective for dealing with trauma and attachment
difficulties.
 Group counselling - enables children/young
Conditions:
The organisation needs to
provide more detail in relation
to its deliver of London
Councils outcomes at Stage
Two, in particular, in relation to
outcomes 3 and 5 and how it
will demonstrate the increased
educational ability of its service
users. The organisation should
advise how it will target its
service users.
The organisation will target a
range of equalities groups
including disadvantaged
children and young people who
are experiencing emotional
and behavioural difficulties,
particularly those who are at
risk of school exclusion.
Previously the beneficiary
make-up of the project has
included English as a second
or third language, 63% boys,
32% of Black heritage, 12% of
Asian or Chinese heritage,
20% of mixed White and Black
Caribbean/African heritage,
26% were of White British/Irish
heritage. The organisation has
demonstrated experience of
delivering services to children;
including children with special
London
Councils
Reference
Organisation
Assessment
Score
Request
Yearly
(£)
Total
request
Project description
Reason for recommendation
and Conditions
(£)


5507
School-Home
Support (SHS)
110
404,189
1,616,715
people deal with issues of bereavement/loss and
self esteem.
Parenting skills workshops and regular meetings
with parents/carers - to enable the organisation
to help parents/carers manage the relationships
with their children more effectively.
Professional development support, counselling
and training for school staff. To ensure effective
partnership working, increase the professional
skills base and lead to better referrals - more
attuned to picking up the emotional needs of the
children.
SHS will offer a menu of services to local authorities (14
with whom the organisation currently works as well as 10
others who have expressed an interest). Services will be
tailor-made through consultation with each
borough/extended schools cluster or individual school
community and based on the organisation’s key
principles of early intervention, child centred practice and
a partnership approach to working with parents. The
activities will include:
 Direct service: placing a support worker to work
within an individual school or across a cluster of
schools, offering 1-2-1 and group interventions;
needs. In the last two years the
organisation has worked in all
the boroughs it proposes to
deliver the London Councils
funded service in.
Conditions:
The organisation should
provide further detail on how it
will target the children
identified in the proposal. The
organisation should provide
more detailed evidence that its
activities will not only improve
confidence but will have an
impact on the improved
national educational standards
or basic skills of its
beneficiaries. The project is
between 5 and 9 per cent over
the amount of funding
available per borough. The
organisation needs to ensure
that it does not exceed the
maximum level of funding
available per borough outlined
in the service specification.
The organisation has
demonstrated its experience of
working with children and
young people as well as the
needs of children in raising
attainment. The organisation
has worked in all the boroughs
it proposes to work in, in the
last two years.
Conditions:
The organisation should
London
Councils
Reference
Organisation
Assessment
Score
Request
Yearly
(£)
Total
request
Project description
Reason for recommendation
and Conditions
(£)


Training and consultancy: for schools/LA staff on
key issues, for example: transition, working with
families (including foster carers), good practice
in school home links, developing and managing
a school home support service
Access to good practice information:
subscription to the organisation’s magazine and
invitations to attend events.
provide further detail in terms
of the activities it will provide to
deliver London Councils
outcomes including clear
indicators to measure the
change in service users. The
project is at least 10 per cent
over the amount of funding
available for four of the
boroughs it proposes to work
in. The organisation should
ensure it does not exceed
London Councils allocated
amounts per borough at Stage
Two.
Table Two - Organisations not recommended to be invited to submit Stage Two funding proposals
London
Councils
Reference
Organisation
Assessment
score
Reason
5429
S Pinter Youth Project
110
5499
ESFORAL
110
5532
St Christopher's Fellowship
110
The proposal lacked sufficient detail in a number of areas, such as where parents will be sign
posted and in terms of the activities it will provide that will help children attend and enjoy school.
(Outcome 4). The organisation scored moderately. It demonstrated experience of working with
children and young people who match some of those outlined in the service specification.
However, it did not demonstrate strong experience of delivering services that raise the attainment
of pupils and it did not demonstrate an awareness of the particular needs of the children it will be
targeting.
The organisation did not provide sufficient indicators that it will use to measure the change
expected from the service user for all its outcomes. In the last two years, the organisation has
worked in less than 60 per cent of the boroughs it proposes to deliver the London Councils
funded service in.
The proposal lacked indicators or annual targets that clearly demonstrated the difference the
organisation’s intervention will have on the children supported.
5574
Young Enterprise London
110
The organisation did not provide a clear link between some of its intended activities and the
indicators outlined (for example it was not explicitly clear how activities will support students to
have increased respect for teachers).
5701
Elfrida Rathbone Camden
110
The project did not provide sufficient detail on its experience of working with children to raise
attainment as opposed to supporting parents. The project provided insufficient detail in a number
of areas including how it will meet outcome 5.
5413
Tam Tam Tales Trust
100
The proposal did not provide sufficient detail of the activities undertaken for each of the
outcomes. The outcomes were not presented using the SMART criteria with indicators.
5456
National Autistic Society
100
5494
Apples and Snakes
100
The organisation did not provide sufficient detail on its experience in helping to improve the
educational attainment of children and young people with autism. The proposal did not provide
sufficient detail on the activities that will be undertaken to achieve outcomes 2 and 4. The
proposal also lacked indicators that clearly demonstrate the difference their intervention will have
on the children supported.
The organisation did not provide sufficient detail on the activities that it will undertake nor
indicators that it will use to measure the change in the service user.
5578
Marian Mission for the Poor
100
The proposal did not include how the organisation would measure change in beneficiaries in the
form of indicators.
5583
Artefacts Edutainment
100
The proposal clearly outlined the activities that will be undertaken; all of which, however, did not
meet those specified (e.g. outcome 3). For some outcomes it provided output information rather
than indicators or provided indicators that did not clearly match the outcomes specified.
The organisation did not provide outcome indicators that clearly demonstrate the expected
outcome, specified in the service specification
The organisation did not provide adequate detail in terms of how the activities outlined would
support CYP to achieve national education targets or develop basic skills. The organisation did
not provide a sufficient answer to Outcome 5.
5686
CSV Media
100
5699
Eden College
100
The proposal provided insufficient detail on the activities that it will undertake and how it will
measure the progress of its service users as outlined in London Councils outcomes for the
service.
5717
Fairbridge in London
100
The proposal did not provide sufficient evidence that it will be able to deliver London Councils
outcomes and did not sufficiently demonstrate how it will measure the change in the service user.
This is particularly related to the organisation’s answer to outcome 3.
5835
Parents for Inclusion
100
5862
Kreative Culture Klub
100
5899
Royal National Institute for
Deaf People (RNID)
100
The proposal does not sufficiently address how it will deliver and measure change for children
and young people, as the primary focus of the proposal is support that will be provided to parents.
Whilst this is a useful approach, it does not enable the project to demonstrate how it will measure
the progress of children and young people, as required by the service specification.
The outcomes do not provide sufficient detail about how the educational attainment of children
who are not achieving will be addressed. Also, it does not provide sufficient detail of how many
disadvantaged students will benefit academically from the awards. For example, how will results
improve for those who watch the awards, year on year.
The organisation did not provide sufficient detail in terms of how it will deliver and measure the
change in children and young people.
5929
Leyton Orient Community
Sports Programme
100
5410
Family Welfare Association
90
5632
Afghan Association
'Paiwand'
90
The proposal did not link the activities it will deliver to London Councils outcomes and how it will
measure the change in its service users.
5682
Coram
90
The proposal has not sufficiently addressed London Councils outcomes in its proposal. The
proposal does not provide a sufficient answer to how it will address outcome 5, nor has it
provided indicators and annual targets to measure the change in its service users.
This organisation is not recommended to proceed to Stage 2. Outcome 3 addressing parental
support has not been included in the proposal and information has not been provided under
outcome 4 to demonstrate enjoyment of school or college. Outcome 5 also lacked detail on
meeting diverse needs and the proposal lacked annual targets and clear detailed indicators in a
number of areas.
The organisation did not clearly outline the activities it will undertake for all outcomes; in particular
outcomes 2 and 4. The proposal provided insufficient detail on how the organisation will measure
the progress of beneficiaries.
5753
The Prince's Trust
90
The organisation did not provide sufficient indicators as to how it will measure the change in
service users.
5450
Women of Africa
80
5539
The Hounslow Arts Trust
Ltd
80
The organisation received a low score. The answer to the outcomes question did not clearly
demonstrate the activities it will undertake to meet each of the intended outcomes. The
organisation did not give specific examples relating to its proposed work and indicators were not
provided.
The organisation received a low score. The activities described did not clearly fit with all of the
intended outcomes. It did not fully utilise the SMART criteria.
5612
Central Eltham Youth
Project
80
The organisation received a low score. The organisation did not provide adequate detail on the
activities it will undertake and did not include indicators for all outcomes.
5743
Genesis Community
80
The organisation received a low score. The proposal did not provide sufficient detail on the
activities it will undertake to achieve the outcomes. It also lacked outcome indicators that show
the change in the service user for each outcome.
5398
Roundabout
70
5570
Tribute Trust
70
5659
Business Education
London South
70
The organisation received a low score. The proposal demonstrates experience of working with
the target group, however, its experience of working with the target group in order to improve
educational attainment was not strongly demonstrated. The organisation did not clearly outline
the activities it would undertake for all of the outcomes or provide clear indicators, in particular for
outcomes 2, 3 and 5.
The organisation received a low score. The project offers a service that is likely to engage its
target group; however, the organisation did not make a strong case for the activities it will provide
in relation to all the outcomes (e.g. outcome 3). The project did not provide sufficient indicators
for all the outcomes that could measure the change in the service user.
The organisation received a low score. The organisation did not demonstrate an understanding
of the issues that effect the educational attainment of the children and young people it targets.
The organisation did not provide sufficient detail in relation to the outcomes criteria.
5770
TreeHouse Trust
70
The organisation received a low score. It is not clear, from the proposal, what activities will be
delivered to achieve some of the outcomes.
5576
Trees for Cities
60
5680
Congolese Youth
Association
60
The organisation received a low score. It did not clearly show how its activities will meet all the
desired outcomes, it did not utilise the SMART criteria and it appears to be a project which aims
to increase understanding of the environment rather then specifically to raise the educational
attainment of children and young people who are consistently below average.
The organisation received a low score.
The proposal did not clearly demonstrate how it would meet all the outcomes; in particular
outcome 5. It did not provide SMART outcomes.
5519
Family Welfare Association
(formerly Thamesmead
Family Service Unit)
50
The organisation received a low score. The proposal outcomes and project description suggest
that it is a counselling service with the primary aim not focused on raising education attainment.
The proposal implies that increased educational attainment might be achieved indirectly. The
proposal did not fully utilise the SMART criteria.
The organisation received a low score. It demonstrated experience of working with children and
young people; however, it did not clearly demonstrate its experience of raising educational
attainment of children and young people. The organisation outlined the activities it will undertake;
however, some of these lacked clarity.
The organisation is automatically rejected as over 60% of its service users are from a single
borough (Wandsworth). Moreover, it received a low score for its outcomes
5933
Futures Theatre Company
50
5648
Battersea Arts Centre
0
5679
Community Youth
Provisions Association
0
The organisation failed to demonstrate its ability to deliver London Councils outcomes and is
therefore automatically rejected.
5916
O'-Bay Community Trust
0
5389
Drop Of Your Heart
0
5481
T.I.P.S. (Training and
Information for Parental
Support)
0
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. The
organisation focussed on aspirations rather than activities and therefore could not demonstrate
realistic delivery towards the specification outcomes. The proposal did not provide any outcome
indicators or targets to show how change would be measured within the life of the grant. The
organisation's accounts also show a deficit that cannot be met from its reserves.
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. The
organisation did not address any of the outcomes outlined in the service specification; rather, it
provided general information about the needs of its target group and what it could do with the
funding.
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. The
proposal did not sufficiently address the service specification having neither outlined activities it
plans to undertake to meet all the outcomes and did not provide any indicators.
5514
TAMIL CULTURAL ARTS
CENTRE
0
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. The
proposal did not clearly demonstrate the activities it will undertake to meet the outcomes
specified and did not utilise the SMART criteria.
5534
Tall Ships Youth Trust
0
5600
Shakespeare Walk
Adventure Playground
Association
0
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. The
organisation outlined the activities it will undertake which did not clearly fit with all of the intended
outcomes. Its responses were not fully SMART; in particular, indicators did not clearly relate to
outcomes 3 or 4 and outcomes 1 and 2 were weak.
Ineligible. The organisation’s constitution states that it can only work in a single borough.
5670
Centerprise Trust Ltd
0
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. The
proposal failed to demonstrate that it met all of the criteria outlined in the service specification. It
did not clearly describe the activities it will undertake for each outcome (in particular outcome 4 or
5). Moreover, the organisation did not utilise the SMART criteria.
5683
Crime Concern
0
5711
Threshold Centre Limited
0
5799
The Woodland Centre
Trust
0
5811
Uganda Aids Action Fund
0
5814
Therapeutic Arts Scheme
Ltd (TAS)
0
5824
WAC Performing Arts and
Media College
0
5861
London Bubble Theatre
Company
0
5910
Latimer Educational
Services
0
5618
Intercontinental Charity
Organisation
0
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. It is offering
a valuable project that to raise the self esteem of its service users; however, the limited detail
provided on its activities made it hard to see how it could increase the educational attainment of it
service users. Moreover, it did not appear to be offering any support to help parents increase the
attainment of their children.
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. The
proposal does not clearly describe the activities it will undertake to meet the outcomes outlined in
the service specification.
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. Insufficient
information is provided about how parents will be able to better support their child’s education,
including knowledge of where to seek additional support. Also, how children and young people
will achieve stretching national education standards and how hard to reach children and young
people will progress towards formal qualifications.
Ineligible. The organisation is not constituted to undertake the proposed project.
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. Insufficient
information is provided about how the project will enable children and young people to achieve
stretching national education standards and how harder to reach children and young people will
develop basic skills and progress towards formal qualifications. Also, insufficient information is
provided about how Travellers and Unaccompanied children will be engaged and how equality
will be promoted through service delivery, marketing, evaluation and management. The
organisation also does not provide sufficient information about how parents will be better able to
support their child's education, including knowledge of where to seek additional support.
The organisation is automatically rejected as it will only serve residents from one borough.
The proposal was automatically rejected due to it not meeting the outcomes criteria. Outcomes
are insufficiently met. The project does not appear to target particularly disadvantaged children,
who are most in need of improvement in educational attainment. Insufficient detail is provided
about engaging parents who may experience various barriers in getting involved with schools, for
example language barriers.
This proposal has been automatically rejected. The residents of one London borough
(Southwark) would receive 60 per cent or more of the benefit of a service.
This proposal has been automatically rejected. Over 60 per cent of the service users are from
one borough.
5785
Norwood
0
Over 60% of residents for the project will come from a single borough. The organisation has
therefore been rejected. Additionally, sufficient detail has not been provided about how the
project will meet the specific outcomes of the service specification.
5568
Anerley French & Swahili
Club
0
5905
Refugee & Migrant Project
(RAMP)
0
5783
North Kensington Law
Centre
0
5852
Salusbury WORLD
0
5865
Lifeline Community
Projects
0
The organisation has been automatically rejected as the residents of one London borough would
receive 60% or more of the benefit of a service. Furthermore, the project received a low score
under the outcomes criteria because its activities were not clearly linked to the service
specification and it did not utilise the SMART criteria.
This proposal was automatically rejected under the outcomes criteria. The activities described did
not demonstrate how outcome 2 or 4 would be met and did not provide indicators or targets
describing how change would be measured over the lifetime of the grant. In addition, in the last
two years, the organisation has worked in less than 60% of the boroughs it proposes to deliver
the London Councils funded service in.
This proposal was automatically rejected under the outcomes criteria. The organisation did not
provide sufficient detail of how they will engage children and parents who may experience
language barriers and who may be traditionally viewed as 'hard to reach'. No information is
provided about the organisation’s mentoring programme, or anti-bullying programme, or about
programmes to increase the number of school governors from disadvantaged communities.
This proposal was automatically rejected under the outcomes criteria. The project is not
sufficiently aimed at directly supporting children and parents to increase self confidence. It is also
not sufficiently aimed at increasing the ability of children and young people to deal with life
changes, achieve educational standards, basic skills, formal qualifications and attendance and
enjoyment at school as listed within the service specification outcomes.
This proposal was automatically rejected under the outcomes criteria The organisation does not
provide sufficient detail about how it will engage and meet the needs of particularly
disadvantaged children outlined in the service specification such as children with special needs,
BAMER children and children for whom is English is not their first language. Additionally, there is
insufficient detail of how the project will engage parents who have low contact rates with schools.
Borough spread
8. Organisations that officers recommend to develop more detailed Stage Two funding proposals
have submitted provisional budgets for the proposed service at Stage One. Officers have
compared these indicative service costs with the Grants Committee’s expectation of how much
benefit residents from each borough should receive. The recommended bids cover all London
boroughs, with three boroughs receiving less than the allocated levels. Officers will work with
organisations to ensure the borough spread represents a closer match to the level of funding
per borough at Stage Two.
9. The package of bids recommended to Stage Two costs more than the allocated level of
funding anticipated by the Grants Committee in 30 boroughs. The organisations that are
recommended have submitted high quality bids that meet the specification. However, there is
£580,000 available annually under this specification and funding requests that total £1,513,641
London Councils will write to all recommended organisations to inform them that officers will
only be able to recommend funding that totals £580,000 annually, at Stage Two.
Financial implications
10. As detailed in the previous section, officers will work with voluntary organisations at stage two
to ensure that the cost of funding the service in each London borough supports the Grants
Committee’s intentions.
Equalities implications
11. The recommended package includes specific targeting of a range of equalities groups
highlighted in the service specification as groups that have experienced lower education
attainment. These groups include BAME, including mixed White and Black Caribbean
heritage, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Roma refugee and migrant children, travellers of Irish
heritage and children from African and Caribbean descent. Also included are white boys from
deprived backgrounds, children in care, special education needs, teenage mothers,
permanently excluded, NEETs (young people not in education, employment or training) and
pupils with ESOL. The package also provides services to refugee and asylum seeking children
and young people, ex-offenders, children and young people with disabilities and children and
young people who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties, particularly those
who are at risk of school exclusion.
12. All second stage proposals should address how they will ensure their service is accessible to
all target groups, in particular children from more than one target group, such as BAME
children with disabilities.
Appendices
13. Appendix one: Funding proposals benefiting London borough residents
Background papers
14. London Councils right to reply procedure
Recommendations
That members agree:
 To invite the 13 organisations listed below to develop Stage Two funding proposals

.
 Windsor Fellowship
 Roma Support Group
 Action for Social Integration
 Kingston & Merton Education Business Partnership (KMEBP)
 Business in the Community (The London Accord)
 Toc H
 Somali Youth Union in UK
 Ebony Education Community Interest Company
 Volunteer Reading Help
 Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Ltd
 Havering Motorvations Ltd
 WHCM
 School-Home Support (SHS)
That the 57 organisations listed in Table 2 should not be invited to develop Stage Two
funding proposals, subject to consideration of any rights to reply.
Appendix One
£11,099
£12,949
£14,216
£2,424
£13,874
£1,400
£7,399
£3,700
£14,216
£21,976
£2,800
£20,841
£995
£14,216
£14,216
£14,216
£14,216
£2,424
£2,800
£2,800
£3,920
£8,484
£2,800
£995
£1,212
£15,839
£11,195
£1,212
£1,212
£14,216
£1,400
£1,400
£78,400
£13,874
£1,960
£9,249
£33,297
£2,424
£14,216
£14,216
£26,388
£12,949
£18,498
£9,249
£9,249
£5,550
£12,949
£2,800
£2,800
£4,200
£31,360
£12,949
£14,799
£67,519
£18,498
£58,270
£2,424
£14,216
£2,800
£11,099
£14,799
£2,424
£8,324
£11,099
£51,000 £68,071 £142,162 £36,400 £24,241 £196,000 £404,189
£20,841
£4,200
£2,800
£12,949
£1,960
Maximum available
per borough
School-Home
Support
£78,400
£1,400
Total
Havering
Motorvations Ltd
Lyric Theatre
Hammersmith Ltd
Volunteer Reading
Help
WHCM
Ebony Education
Community Interest
Company
Borough
Barking and Dagenham
£7,403 £4,292
£1,481 £13,500
Barnet
£1,481 £13,500
Bexley
£15,856
£1,481 £13,500
Brent
£14,815 £13,500
Bromley
£14,923
£1,481
Camden
£7,403
£7,407
City
Croydon
£26,582
£1,481 £27,000
Ealing
£1,481
Enfield
£4,292 £10,715
£1,481
Greenwich
£7,403
£24,250
£1,481 £13,500
Hackney
£7,403
£14,815
Hammersmith and Fulham
£7,407
Haringey
£7,403 £4,292 £10,715
£1,481
Harrow
£3,704
Havering
£1,481
Hillingdon
£7,403
£1,481
Hounslow
£1,481
Islington
£7,403
£14,815
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston
£6,063
Lambeth
£7,403
£21,919
£7,407
Lewisham
£21,452
£7,407
Merton
£10,726
Newham
£7,403 £15,021
£7,407 £27,000
Redbridge
£4,292
£1,481
Richmond
£6,529
Southwark
£7,403
£24,250
£1,481
Sutton
£11,192
£1,481
Tower Hamlets
£3,704 £13,500
Waltham Forest
£10,729
£1,481
Wandsworth
£14,457
£3,704
Westminster
£3,704
Total £74,032 £42,917 £21,429 £198,200 £120,000 £135,000
Somali Youth Union
in UK
Toc H
Business in the
Community (The
London Accord)
Kingston & Merton
Education Business
Partnership (KMEBP)
Action for Social
Integration
Roma Support Group
Windsor Fellowship
Funding proposals benefiting London borough residents
£116,175 £17,904
£29,330 £18,518
£30,837 £15,761
£58,829 £21,743
£16,405 £14,940
£23,610 £14,521
£89
£3,700
£69,280 £26,495
£41,630 £21,814
£34,986 £27,219
£72,900 £24,465
£73,245 £19,466
£36,653 £11,277
£53,856 £22,409
£5,911 £13,320
£93,755 £14,988
£25,936 £20,485
£15,289 £17,915
£49,043 £17,488
£6,372
£35,721
£6,146
£6,063
£66,694 £22,152
£60,675 £21,539
£78,245 £10,681
£105,918 £33,560
£95,403 £16,756
£6,320
£8,953
£63,100 £24,171
£12,674 £11,281
£34,463 £32,106
£50,651 £21,722
£28,909 £14,337
£14,803 £12,040
£1,513,641 £580,000