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Residential trips: The Great Outdoors

An outdoor break can be an empowering and life-changing experience for young people. Charlotte Goddard explores the benefits of residential trips and how to prepare for them.

Skills for the Job: Safeguarding children online

All professionals working with children and young people should be aware of the dangers of online grooming, says Ceop's Helen Whittle

Positive for youth?

Released just before Christmas, the government's youth policy produced no festive funding treats and put local areas in charge of forging new methods of delivery. Charlotte Goddard looks at its implications

Can the Youth Contract unlock young people's potential?

With youth unemployment rising to record levels, attempts to tackle the issue formed a key plank of the government's autumn statement stimulus package.

Good Idea: Council teenage employment scheme

How an arts programme offers young people an education lifeline

Middlesbrough's stART initiative is helping young people not in education, employment or training to boost their confidence and skills

Good Practice: How a theatre scheme is helping young people face up to extremism

The One Extreme to the Other project is raising young people's awareness of the issues surrounding extremism in the North West

Good Practice: How a summer programme helped to tackle antisocial behaviour in Cheshire

The Halton Summer Blitz aims to provide a range of positive activities for children and young people during the holidays

Good Practice: How young people in London are learning to be tomorrow's leaders

The Uprising programme is helping young people in the capital to secure employment and develop their confidence

Youth organisations urged to overcome fears of working with businesses

Scepticism over companies' motives for working with youth groups must be overcome to successfully deliver improved services, a charity central to the government's youth policy has warned.

Councils begin to develop youth innovation zones

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Devolving power to frontline staff and placing young people at the centre of decision-making will be central to delivering youth services in the newly announced "youth innovation zones".

Government's youth policy 'lacks bite', claims Catch22

Leaders of youth services are being urged to drive improvements for young people after accusations that the government's youth policy lacks bite.

Local authorities urged to draw up youth action plans

All local authorities and government departments must publish their own youth action plan if the government's vision for youth services is to make a difference, the head of The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) has said.

National youth scrutiny group to advise ministers as Positive for Youth policy is unveiled

A national scrutiny group of young people will advise ministers on how government policies affect them and their families, as part of the government's youth policy.

Bereavement youth work resources

A round-up of resources for youth workers running sessions on bereavement.

Ghosts of Labour system are very much present

After a great deal of deliberation and consultation, the Department for Education has at last pumped out the latest governmental aspirations for young people in England. Released last month, Positive for Youth was quite rightly praised in this space ...

The script can be judged only by its performance

One week into the new year and here at the office we are back and already trying to remember what - however briefly - not being at work was like. We are still digesting a flurry of consultation materials issued by government in the run-up to the brea...

Guidance is vital to turn youth policy into action

Nine months after its conception last March, the government's youth policy arrived into this world six days before Christmas, not exactly kicking and screaming and without much fanfare. Positive for Youth was born after what seemed an interminable bu...

Youth Club Sessions: Culture and Identity

The UK is home to many faiths and cultures. Vanessa Rogers shares ideas to help young people explore their roots.

Youth Work Sessions: Group work

Youth Work Sessions: Setting Achievable Goals

New Year is the time for reflection, making resolutions and setting personal goals. This selection of activities encourages young people to set themselves targets that are achievable and relevant. Included are ideas for setting goals, identifying pot...

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