Young People’s Services (YPS) is a borough wide service that provides quality and intensive targeted youth support to young people aged between 8 – 19 years that are referred in via schools, Police, Children’s Social Care and various Local Authority and Voluntary Community Faith Sector partners.
The service also delivers universal Blackburn with Darwen Youth Forums and targeted participation voice groups which include Children in our care forums. They offer bespoke activity packages to schools and youth organisations along with the delivery of Duke of Edinburgh and National Citizen Service programmes.
The YPS Inclusion project provides a high quality provision for children and young people aged 5 - 21 years old, tailored to meet the needs of children and young people with both additional and complex needs.