From next September, students at Derby University will study social enterprise and learn how to put together independent funding packages for youth work projects on a re-launched BA youth work course.
The Working with Young People and Communities degree also offers a module on supporting children, families and carers.
Vicki Millward, programme leader for the course, said youth workers of the future would need financial skills because cuts to local authority youth budgets had placed more emphasis on voluntary sector provision.
She added that youth workers required greater understanding of adults’ needs, as well as young people’s, because the changing social policy context was “putting an emphasis on community action and localism”.
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