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Youth Work in the 2020s: Services ‘should focus on quality rather than outcomes’ amid pandemic

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Youth work services should focus on the quality of provision rather than on outcomes amid the Covid-19 pandemic, CYP Now’s Youth Work in the 2020s conference has heard.
Bethnia McNeil encourged a focus on positive relationships. Picture: Centre for Youth Impact
Bethnia McNeil encourged a focus on positive relationships. Picture: Centre for Youth Impact

As part of a discussion called Rethinking the Role of Youth Work and Evaluation During the Pandemic, Bethia McNeil, chief executive at the Centre for Youth Impact highlighted the importance of quality youth work for millions of children affected by the pandemic. 

“Covid does not devalue evaluation it reframes it,” she said, “it should lead us to focussing more on quality and less on outcomes 

“Quality needs to be more dominant - the conversations we have about quality are not as closely connected to impact as they should be.

“Outcomes will be achieved when we focus on the quality of relationships.”

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