Blog Articles
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Guest Post: Naomi Stanton
This guest post is part of a series by youth work volunteers and practitioners writing about their experiences of working with young people in their particular context. Naomi Stanton has been doing her PhD research on the Sunday Schools movement from the eighteen hundreds to the twentieth century and has found some interesting parallels for youth
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More Cuts In West Sussex
Last year West Sussex County Council ‘Youth Support & Development Service’ did a consultation before slashing £2 million pounds from their budget. They are now facing a second round of cuts and this time they have to save another £2 million. Similar things are happening around the country to other youth services. As a resident,
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Charging for Youth Clubs
Back in November 2009 I wrote an article for Youth Work Now magazine arguing that it was OK in principle to charge young people to attend a youth club. I still believe that to be true, but want to explore the journey we’ve been on with one of our groups. For a number of years
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Consultation on Institute for Youth Work
Yesterday the National Youth Agency (NYA) announced a consultation to gather opinion from youth workers and managers about the potential for a national Institute for Youth Work. There’s a bit of a story to this which I previously wrote about here and here. It is now VERY important that anyone working with young people in
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Facebook Changes mainly for Teens?
Yesterday Facebook announced a raft of changes to the site that are designed to help it compete with other social websites, and will no doubt have most users complaining again. Whilst many others are covering the changes in detail, I thought it was worth mentioning here because of the way the new features play towards
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Summer Update
Hi, my name is Jon! I thought I’d better introduce myself as it’s been a while since I posted anything on this blog. Sorry about that. As planned, I took the summer off from blogging and got stuck into the various holiday activities that we run in the community. We did two playschemes back-to-back with
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Blogging Break!
After a few years of trying and failing to post items on this blog during the summer, I’m giving up in advance and letting you know that this blog is taking a summer break! I’ve got a great deal to keep me occupied, so will resume invading your feed readers and inboxes at the beginning
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Outcomes in Youth Work: the problem of product
Just over 2 years ago I completed my degree in Informal & Community Education. The final dissertation for my studies evolved somewhat from its initial idea and ended up with the title ‘Outcomes in Youth Work: the problem of product’. Here’s the synopsis: This project aims to explore the recent rise in outcome-driven youth work
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Mistakes I’ve Made #9
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 #9: Not backing up my team This is something that’s happened quite recently and has been
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Challenging Online Behaviour
Recently I’ve been having a hard time deciding how best to deal with people through Facebook. I know there are a myriad of issues regarding engaging young people in a digital space (which I’ve written about before and posted guidance on), but it can be a useful and effective medium for youth work. The problem I have been
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