The agency feels that the need to demonstrate the value of youth work is too often overlooked in the understandable desire to concentrate on the work itself. However, youth work providers are now expected to be able to offer evidence of how youth work contributes to young people's development and achievement, and how it helps meet public policy objectives.
Issue 33 of Spotlight looks at how youth policy is now being framed with reference to the five Every Child Matters outcomes. These include targets and indicators under each heading. Spotlight also focuses on how best to capture and describe the youth work impact, giving good examples of impact against each of the green paper's five outcomes. To download Spotlight, visit: http://www.nya.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?
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