Representing the voluntary youth sector is part of our core offer in order to keep our groups well connected and an active part of the conversation around any new strategies, plans and ways of working for children’s and young people’s groups.

ECVYS provide representation for the sector at National, Regional, County Wide and County Quadrant level meetings. This allows us to temperature check the work going on at grassroots level and enable the groups to share their views on issues that matter to them. We aim to keep groups abreast of any changes in policy, funding, safeguarding and training so that they can keep children and young people stable, resilient and safe.

Our groups tend to know what is going on at grassroots level, but we aim to be there to link them up with key policy makers so that we can help children and young people to have positive futures.

ECVYS provide representation in a wide range of meetings including:

• The Essex Safeguarding Children’s Board Executive (and all of the Stay Safe meetings) 
• The ESCB Missing from Education Sub Group
• The ESCB Training and Development Sub Group
• The ESCB Harm in the Community Sub Committee
• The Children’s Partnership Board (and all the quadrant meetings)
• The Supporting Families Strategic Partnership Board
• The Essex Domestic Abuse Local Partnership Board
• Southend Essex & Thurrock Domestic Abuse Board – Children and Young People
• Southend Essex & Thurrock Domestic Abuse Board – Learning and Development Group
• Safer Essex
• The Violence and Vulnerability Unit Ops Board
• The National Council of Voluntary Youth Organisations Network
• The Eastern Region Youth Participation Group 
• The East of England & East Midlands Regional Youth Work Unit 
• The Mid & South Community Assembly Co-Production Group
• Suffolk and North East Essex ICS VCFSE Assembly
• The Working Families Stakeholder Forum
• Southend Essex & Thurrock Parenting Reference Group
• Violence Against Woman & Girls Steering Group

Senior staff from some of our member organisations are our brilliant ECVYS representatives at these meetings. If you or your organisation would like to be an ECVYS rep please contact Beks Korniej our Partnership and Projects Manager by emailing Beks@ecvys.org.uk.

ECVYS Representatives

Meeting	ECVYS Representative
Quadrant Stay Safe Meetings:
Mid Essex	Sarah Simpkin – The Children’s Society
North Essex	Sarah Simpkin – The Children’s Society
South Essex	Bobbie Pettit – CAVS
West Essex	Gemma Ashby – The Children’s Society & Rob Gayler Lambourne End Centre
Quadrant Children and Families Partnership Board:
Mid Essex	Sarah Simpkin – The Children’s Society
North Essex
South Essex	Janis Gibson – CAVS
West Essex	Kevin Gay – Pact for Autism & Jason Shaves – Rainbow Services
ESCB Harm in the Community Sub Committee	Sarah Simpkin – The Children Society