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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.

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.

Skills for the new curriculum

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  • Monday, June 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
The revised Early Years Foundation Stage framework comes into force in September. Sue Learner examines the skills that practitioners require to deliver the new curriculum and what training is available

Qualifications and Training Guide: Directors

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  • Tuesday, August 29, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Leadership roles in children's services are becoming more wide-ranging with those in senior positions increasingly finding themselves responsible for services outside their historical area of expertise. As integrated delivery becomes more established, there is increasing fluidity between the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Education

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  • Friday, September 1, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Education support staff, such as teaching assistants, mental health workers and special educational needs co-ordinators (Sencos) have faced a number of challenges in 2023, including increased demand for support.

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.

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