Youth work has long made a contribution to combating social exclusion and to building social capital. It endeavours to enable young people to secure good jobs, live in a safe environment, build strong social networks, pursue healthy activities and manage their lives effectively.
The set of papers in the booklet aims to help demonstrate such benefit, seeking to place a value on what is gained through good youth work both with individuals and for the wider community.
While government and other funders are the principal claimants for such measured outcomes, young people themselves also deserve to know what benefits they can expect from their engagement in youth work and staff will also wish to see the value of their work. The collection contains three papers.The first, by Professor Peter Jackson, of Leicester University, sets out some of the key theoretical underpinning for performance measurement (and performance management), especially in public services.
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