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Youth Work: Policy context

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
The last decade was not good for youth work. The statistics are well known: since 2010, hundreds of youth clubs have been closed; thousands of youth work jobs lost; and more than 100,000 places for young people scrapped – the result of a 75 per cent reduction in council youth work budgets.

Councils begin to develop youth innovation zones

    News
  • Tuesday, December 20, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Devolving power to frontline staff and placing young people at the centre of decision-making will be central to delivering youth services in the newly announced "youth innovation zones".

Unite blasts youth policy proposals

    News
  • Thursday, October 13, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The government has been accused of ignoring sector concerns over youth services just weeks before it is due to publish a youth policy statement.

Youth sector ‘hurt' by government plans for statutory NCS

    News
  • Friday, June 3, 2016
  • | CYP Now
The youth sector has been "hurt" by the government's decision to place the National Citizen Service (NCS) on a statutory footing while ignoring calls to give universal youth work the same status, the chair of the Institute of Youth Work (IYW) has said.

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