The Government set service benchmarks on recording and accreditation of young people's achievement in December 2003. These involved 60 per cent of the participants gaining a recorded outcome and 30 per cent an accredited outcome.
We should be clear that these indicators are not about altering the methodology of youth work. They do not require detached workers to chase young people down the street clutching a bundle of workbooks. When young people come through the door of the club, workers do not take them aside, sit them down and put them through a complex assessment process. What they do say is that young people have a right to recognise what they have gained from youth work and, where it is sensible, that this learning should be given due credit, so it has some currency in the world they live in. This also helps clarify for workers what progress has been made and what the next steps could be.
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