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Youth Work: An Essential Service?
Across the country many of us are now planning how we gradually start to re-open youth provision for our young people. I can’t say we will be getting back to ‘business as usual’ as COVID-19 will be around for some time, and the impact of the virus on young people and...
CITIZENS ENQUIRY LAUNCHES 12th May 2020 Youth Work and Young People Now
What is our collective sense of what is going on for youth work in current circumstances? What are young people saying about how they are feeling? What challenges are youth workers and organisations facing? What are the potentials and possibilities? Janet Batsleer in...
Newhaven Youth Centre – A dedicated hub for youth work in Newhaven delivered by Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) and partners
After more than a decade of planning, consulting, designing and fundraising, Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) are proud to announce the completion of the build of a dedicated youth centre in Newhaven, East Sussex in April 2020. The only dedicated...
Welcome to Ruth Richardson – IYW Development Officer
In November 2019 we set our to recruit our first paid member of staff to the IYW and we are able to announce now that Ruth Richardson was successful in being recruited to the position of Development Officer at the IYW. Hi, I am Ruth Richardson and I am the Development...
Impact versus youth work – Making the impossible work for us
Leading a youth work organisation over the past eight years has been both exciting and exhausting, but always it has remained our biggest accomplishment to date. During a period where nationally youth work has seen decimation to the sector beyond all fears, Kinetic...
The DCMS are reviewing the statutory guidance for Local Authorities on Youth Service provision (as it relates to England)
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) (and current home to Youth Work in Government) has launched a review of the guidance for local authorities of the thin piece of statute related to the provision of Youth Services as set out in Section 507b of...
New Civil Society Minister takes up the brief for Youth (Work)
At the end of July the incoming Prime Minster appointed a ne Cabinet which saw Baroness Diana Barran, a Conservative Life Peer, charity campaigner and former hedge fund manager take over from Mims Davies MP as the holder of the Youth brief as it sits within the DCMS....
Eminent Youth Work historian Bernard Davies brings together his thoughts on recent youth work developments
In light of policy makers discussing the need for youth services and other significant developments, Bernard Davies has set out his related thoughts in a useful and stimulating piece for Youth & Policy here. The Youth & Policy journal offers a critical space...
Serious Violence Review from the Home Affairs Committee calls for a ‘Youth Service Guarantee’ and a related petition picks up pace
In its report on Serious Youth Violence the Home Affairs Committee says the rise in serious youth violence is a social emergency, and that young people have been failed in the most devastating way, losing their lives as a result. It says a ‘Youth Service Guarantee’ is...
A Register for Youth Workers
The APPG on Youth Affairs Youth Work Inquiry has highlighted the need for Youth Worker registration in the final report, published yesterday (4.4.19). The fifth recommendation in the inquiry report on workforce strategy, states that: “To be effective, a register of...
Choose Youth Parliamentary Roundtable
The Choose Youth parliamentary roundtable yesterday saw around 100 people come together in a warm room (intended to fit around 65) in a hugely positive show for youth work across the board. Several Labour MPs and representatives from Lib Dem Friends of Youth...
Statement from the IYW Council on the subject of youth work in the media currently as a result of increased youth violence
Recent media focus on the enormous value of sustained, high-quality youth work and its tremendous positive impact on communities is long overdue. Yet at the Institute for Youth Work (IYW) we would hope for some of the more positive stories that happen daily to emerge and be credited. Instead we see the disastrous impacts of an under-supported […]