Youth Work

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.

Bang for the buck

Social investment is set to become a growing source of finance for public projects. Ravi Chandiramani examines how it works, the principal challenges and how the children's sector could reap the benefits

Different age, similar struggle

Intergenerational projects are helping younger members of the LGBT community to recognise not only the achievements of the older generation but also their own potential to succeed, reports Emily Rogers

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

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.