Wales Youth Agency 2003

Shorter summary of a lengthy and detailed report on the Ely Youth and Community Project arising from evaluation of its work during a two and a half year research study. The report aims to highlight the issues concerning policy, practice, provision and research which appear to be the most central messages to be shared with the wider field. It is hoped that this report will still provoke serious discussion and thought amongst policy makers, practitioners and students alike (and indeed anyone concerned with working with young people) from both within and outside the youth and community field. The research was prompted both by demands from fieldworkers in Ely and by a wider concern within Wales over a number of years about the need to develop more collaborative inter-agency approaches to working with young people and the community.

Placement pack for students and those delivering the Staff College Practitioner Training Qualifying Course in 2003 (a local qualification for workers working with young people).

Senior club members participated in the organisation of club life by monitoring the progress of new club members and making recommendations to the senior committee as to whether the young probationers should become full club members. The Variety Club of Great Britain was particularly generous to the Swansea Boys Club. The policy of the Local Education Authority was to provide mixed youth clubs and the Club became officially known as the ‘Swansea Boys and Girls Club’.

Report of Seminar organised jointly by the Wales Youth Work Partnership and the Council for Education and Training in Youth and Community Work at the Pencerrig Hotel,  Powys in 1986.

The aim of the seminar was to explore the central ideas within the report 'Starting from Strengths' and their application in practice. 'Starting from Strengths' is the report of the panel to promote the continuing development of training for part-time and voluntary youth and community workers and is published by the National Youth Bureau.

Starting from Strengths. In mid-December the Wales Youth Work Partnership and the Council for the Training of Youth and Community Workers (CETYCW) organised a one-day seminar to look at new approaches to part-time youth worker training. What follows is a brief summary of that day and a few reflections on how developments in part-time youth worker training would affect those who have a duty to deliver or provide such training in Wales. 

Text of speech by Minister for Education Wales (Jane Davidson) to national CYWU conference held in Plymouth where she outlined the National Assembly for Wales' plans to improve services for young people through the policy 'Extending Entitlement'.