Paul Oginsky, chief executive of Personal Development Point (PDP), a specialist training provider that helped develop the government's flagship National Citizen Service initiative, has written a "white paper" advising the youth sector on how to attract investment into character development for young people.
In the paper, A Way Forward for Character Development: The Missing Piece of Education, Oginsky says that practitioners, commissioners and policymakers need to "differentiate effective character development from other forms of education, leisure and positive activities" if they are to make a "convincing case for funding even in times of austerity".
To do this effectively, youth leaders need to identify clear ways to show how services and interventions help young people. Oginsky says this poses a problem, because there is no "definitive and universally accepted" way of measuring the impact of their work.
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