They are being tutored by previous course participants who tell the group how they have benefited from their new skills. The scene is one picked out in Ofsted's recent report Effective Youth Services as showing best practice in project-based youth work.
According to the report, project-based youth work is the most likely to elicit achievement from young people that is described as good, very good, or excellent. Of the 261 sessions in 31 youth services inspected by Ofsted in 2004, 28 per cent were excellent or very good and 39 per cent were good. The figure was much lower for detached work, with only six per cent of sessions eliciting excellent achievement from young people and 29 per cent good.
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