Blog Articles
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Policy and Procedure Templates
I’m sorry about the low amount of posts recently. I’m desperately trying to ensure I put at least one thing up here a week to keep some level of continuity. Part of the reason I’ve not had time to post is due to getting my head around the operational procedures of the church here. A
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Generous Gifts
I’ve mentioned previously that we run a Breakfast Club before school each day for primary children who are referred to the service. Aside from sharing food together each morning with a fantastic groups of kids, the breakfast club partners with local schools who provide a walking bus service to get the children from our centre
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Guest Post: Ben Young
This post is part of a short series written by former young people I have had the privilege of working with. Having been involved in youth work for well over 10 years, many of my old youth groups have gone on to do amazing and exciting things. Some, to my immense pride, have also gone
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Changes to criminal checks
This morning brings us news of the government’s Freedoms Bill being unveiled later today, which proposes changes to the overly complicated and bureaucratic criminal record checking system: The new bill calls for a merging of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority to form “a streamlined new body providing a proportionate barring and
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Voluntary Sector Cuts
Voluntary Sector Cuts is a new collaborative project which maps intelligence about voluntary groups experiencing reductions in public sector funding. If you’re involved in a voluntary or community group which has been told its statutory funding will be reduced, you can be part of this work by sharing your story. Just fill in the simple
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Great Is The Lord: Session on Worship
The following is a session plan for youth groups on the importance of worship that I wrote a number of years ago. It was included as an extra on a Distinctive Spring Harvest youth worship album. Aim The aim of this session is to understand what it means to praise God and to explore why
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Youth Work Online Month of Action
If you didn’t already know, Youth Work Online is a collaborative website for youth workers and informal educators to: Share your questions about the impact of digital technologies on work with young people; and about the policy or practice of digital youth work Update colleagues about new developments and share your latest work. Join in
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Mental Health & Youth Clubs
From Children & Young People Now: Report underlines youth clubs’ role in combating mental health problems in young people. Youth clubs can help reduce young people’s chances of developing mental problems, according to an interim report published by Clubs for Young People and Young Devon. The report Somewhere to Talk — Someone to Listen looks
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Youth Sector Criticised for Lack of Evidence
This is a very interesting piece of news where the outcome will affect the youth work landscape in the UK for a long time: Select committee chairman blasts youth sector for lack of evidence. The chairman of the education select committee inquiry into young people’s services has accused the youth sector of failing to make
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Mistakes I’ve Made #4
Everyone makes mistakes, and when it comes to my youth work I’ve made some clangers! Hopefully by reproducing them here, it may give you a bit of a laugh and help you to avoid doing the same thing. Mistake #4: Not believing what I’m told This mistake follows on directly from my last mistake where
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