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The National Youth Agency: Comment - Beyond training, towards development of action learners

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Research commissioned by The National Youth Agency set out to identify the impact of Extended Positive Activities for Young People, in particular those guns and gangs "hotspots" in the UK.

Among the findings was the need for workforce development for practitioners operating and managing challenging projects involving young people. This requirement was identified repeatedly through meetings with practitioners and at conferences. The latter were designed to feedback findings and to enable practitioners to give their views on the best way to create new initiatives and to ensure the sustainability of recognised best practice. The discussions were highly productive - with practitioners recognising that worker development was needed during a project rather than as an afterthought, or divorced from the lived realities of the young people they were helping to support and develop.

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