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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
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 youth workers should be developed and support both professional development and a probationary period […]
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 Services heard representation in the 2 hour session at Westminster Palace on […]
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 […]