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Youth Work - Jobs and training trends

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  • Monday, June 23, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Youth work courses are continuing to adapt to meet changing employment conditions in the sector. Charlotte Goddard examines how institutions are preparing students for employment opportunities.

Courses adapt to frontline demands

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  • Monday, July 9, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Youth work provision is becoming increasingly diversified, as needs and budgets vary across the country. Charlotte Goddard investigates whether courses and qualifications are keeping up with the changes

Would a licence to practise raise the bar?

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Professor Cathy Nutbrown's interim report of early education and childcare qualifications states that despite unwavering evidence that good quality provision is vital for young children's development, the work of the early years sector is "widely seen as low status, low paid and low skilled".

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Early Help

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The government is investing £200m to extend its Supporting Families programme to March 2025. Supporting Families provides targeted early interventions for families with complex, interconnected problems.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Directors

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
During 2021/22, there were 18 new permanent appointments of directors of children’s services (DCSs), up from 12 the previous year, according to the Association of Directors of Children’s Services. Fewer local authorities are combining children’s and adult services with just 22 “twin hat” directors, the lowest number since 2010.

London councils win apprenticeship funding

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  • Friday, January 27, 2012
  • | CYP Now
More than 700 young people are to gain employment opportunities after a group of councils secured apprenticeship funding of 1.25m from the European Social Fund.

Youth work courses continue to evolve

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  • Tuesday, June 25, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Student numbers on youth work courses are in decline, while some universities are axing their degrees altogether, but Charlotte Goddard finds institutions adapting learning to meet changing needs in the sector.

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