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Access to Youth Work: Training developments

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  • Tuesday, October 24, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Youth workers work in a variety of settings including traditional youth clubs, in the community (detached youth work) and increasingly in places such as schools, hospitals and secure environments.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Youth Work

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  • Friday, September 1, 2023
  • | CYP Now
In the past, youth work was mainly delivered by local authorities but today is provided by a range of organisations such as housing programmes, voluntary organisations, within the NHS and in social care or youth justice.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Youth Work

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
In February 2022, the government committed to a new Youth Guarantee, including a £171m investment in the National Citizen Service (NCS). A £378m Youth Investment Fund will finance up to 300 new and refurbished youth facilities. Government-funded local youth partnerships in deprived areas will aim to improve services for young people through greater co-operation between the public and voluntary sectors.

Youth work and sport – Policy context

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  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Activity levels among children and young people generally have fallen since the pandemic. Latest figures from Sport England show that 45 per cent meet the chief medical officer’s target of 60 minutes of exercise a day, while a third of young people undertake less than half the recommended amount.

Policy context: Access to the outdoors

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  • Tuesday, March 29, 2022
  • | CYP Now
According to the Children’s People and Nature Survey (C-PANS) published by Natural England in February, 96 per cent of children said they spent time outside (somewhere other than their garden) at least once a week in August 2021.

Sustainable Services: Policy context

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
  • | CYP Now
There are numerous studies showing how events like floods, fires, drought and harm to animals as a result of habitat destruction are affecting the mental health of young people, who now face even more uncertainty about their future because of the pandemic.

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