An independent inquiry into youth work in secondary schools has re-emphasised the benefits that a collaborative approach can have for young people – and highlights the challenges in implementing the approach across England.
The Better together: Youth work with schoolsreport sets out the findings of the inquiry, which looked at evidence from more than 150 organisations alongside information gathered from a number of visits and hearings.
The report, commissioned by the National Youth Agency (NYA), is a follow up to a 2013 cross-party commission that also concluded that there needed to be stronger collaboration between education and youth work. Since then, young people have been faced with a myriad of unprecedented challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, yet there is still a lack of evidence on the impact of youth work in schools.
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