WEAKNESSES
THREATS
- A need to differentiate between universal and targeted or other forms of youth work, to strengthen the case for longer-term investment.
- Wide range of value/reach/investment per area - may benefit from cost benefit analysis.
- Not all funded or supported youth providers buy in to the partnership, or are not counted in statistics (E.g. St Maddoes,Tulloch Net and churches).
- More clarity needed over what is eligible to count in UYW monitoring, flexibility of fund makes benefits less clear (e.g. work funded by other funds/funders).
- Potential continued or renewed restrictions relating to Covid-19.
- Overlapping lines of accountability for different funds/funders (hence a need to clarify reporting).
- Risk of losing ongoing investment in UYW when fund ends.
- Risk of partnership being diluted after funding.
- Potential conflicts of interest as internal trading evolves without clear protocols or procedures.
- Threat that some work may not be publicly perceived as 'universal' or accessible (if for example partners don't demonstrate an understanding of barriers in how services are promoted and delivered).
- Risk that collective achievements are undermined by early phase lower reach in Perth City, with largest population.
The SWOT analysis provides a summary of the wider learning from year two.
Year three will focus on the partnership.
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