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Review highlights best practice to shape the future of youth work

6 mins read Youth Work
MPs canvass the sector to identify youth work practice models that put trusted relationships between young people and practitioners at their core and which should be championed by the next government.
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Football Beyond Borders delivers a long-term, targeted social and emotional learning intervention for vulnerable 16- to 18-year-olds.

A review of youth work policy and practice over the current parliament has set out a series of recommendations for how to reform services under a new government to better meet young people’s emerging support needs.

The rapid review by MPs Lloyd Russell-Moyle and Ben Bradley follows a call for evidence published by CYP Now at the start of the year, with responses from frontline youth work organisations and practitioners informing the recommendations on priority areas for the next parliament.

The MPs’ review charts trends in youth work provision and spending since a 2019 report by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on youth affairs which highlighted the detrimental impact that £1bn of budget cuts had on local authority services in the previous decade.

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