The call comes in the latest Spotlight briefing paper from the Agency, which focuses on workforce development. It reports that Ofsted experiences a disturbingly high number of occasions when youth services are staffed by unqualified, inexperienced and inadequately supported staff. This has a significant impact on the quality of youth work, as experienced by young people. Equally, it has a profound effect on the image of youth work, as held by other professionals and policymakers.
Youth services continue to spend an alarmingly small percentage of their budgets on activities to support staff development, the paper continues, and fail to integrate staff development needs with the need to keep the service running. Too often the provision of youth work and the process of staff development are seen as divergent, with one having inevitably to lose out in order for the other to succeed - staff development usually being the natural victim.
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