Tipperary Education and Training Board(TETB) has secured €150,000 in State funding to support the establishment of a Local Creative Youth Partnership(LCYP) for the county.
Tipperary ETB received approval for it’s application to the Department of Education, under its Creative Youth Plan 2023-2027.
LCYPs are networks which allow for information sharing and collaboration between the ETB, local authorities, the non-formal education sector, family support services and youth services. They also allow for the formation of new partnerships and relationships with the local creative sector. A key element to the work of the LCYP will be putting children and young people at the heart of developing and implementing opportunities to engage with creative activities.
The Tipperary LCYP will include representation from a wide range of local organisations across the statutory, community and voluntary sectors, that have a remit for the arts, culture and/or creativity, and that work with children and young people.
This development means Tipperary ETB will join seven other ETBs in having an LCYP. The longer term goal is to deliver “an Ireland where creativity is at the heart of children and young peoples’ lives, contributing to their happiness, wellbeing and personal development and enabling young people to be heard and inform all aspects of the work.
