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NEWSLETTER Spring / Summer 2020
Chair's Update
I’ll start with applause. Applause for all of the youth workers who found themselves in
a strange new landscape over the past few weeks but understood that being in the
service of youth meant knuckling down and figuring out new means of engagement.
Applause for all of the youth workers who are now furloughed on the Government’s
Job Retention Scheme and can’t work for the sake of their projects’ long-term
continuity, even though it goes against their instincts. Applause for youth work’s
back-office; our Administrators, Central Service Managers and Fundraisers, who
have been scrambling to hold the work together. We have all worked to adapt and
overcome, and all for our young people, who we know will be hugely affected by this
crisis. So, if you haven’t already, find some time in your day to take a break, fix
yourself a cuppa and consider this: You are doing amazingly well just to cope in this unprecedented time!
The Institute for Youth Work has had a really interesting time of it lately. Most of our
regular work has continued, including our representation on the ETS (Education &
Training Standards Board), the Youth Work National Advisory Board, the
Commonwealth Alliance of Youth Work Associations and other sector fora. However,
I am delighted to say that, with support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, we now
have our very own Development Officer, Ruth Richardson!
It has been 5 years of supporting the IYW as volunteers, where we have grown,
developed our Strategic Plan, established ourselves as a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation, run regular annual conferences with great success and continually
worked to platform Youth workers’ interests across the sector’s infrastructure. We
are now in a position to properly introduce Ruth, who is poised to take the
organisation forwards into its next era.
This era will be defined by the development of the Register for Youth Workers, as
mandated by membership and the sector-wide steering group we convene. It will
also mark a shift towards greater member involvement and clear benefits for
membership.
It is true that as a membership organisation, we cannot exist without you, our
members. At this time, we ask for your continued support and involvement to help
us grow the IYW into an indispensable youth work infrastructure component – the
legitimate voice of Youth Workers.
Thank you.
Adam Muirhead, Chair, Institute for Youth Work
LATEST NEWS
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Sussex Community Development Association & Partners
Newhaven Youth Centre – A dedicated hub for youth work in Newhaven delivered by Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) and partners
After more than a decade of planning, consulting, designing and fundraising, Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) are proud to announce the completion of the build of a dedicated youth centre in Newhaven, East Sussex in April 2020. The only dedicated purpose built youth space in the town.
UK Youth and the National Youth Agency have worked together to provide some
simple support for youth workers and young people
Take The Temperature: National Youth Trends
Think that the panic is all hype? Think that the government has taken too long to act? Believe the global conspiracies? Self-isolating? Take the Temperature asks what you think on COVID-19 and its impact. The research aims to influence businesses, organisations and government to respond to people’s needs better.
#TakeTheTemp
UK poll finds young people's mental health hit by coronavirus
More than 80% of young people with a history of mental ill health have found their conditions have worsened since the coronavirus crisis began in the UK, a survey has found.
UK youth employment prospects crumbling in coronavirus crisis
Some of the UK’s biggest employers have cancelled or delayed recruitment schemes and internships, amid concerns that the coronavirus pandemic could hit the job prospects of young people the hardest.
Centre for Youth Impact are holding open office hours.
Book a 45 minute Zoom session by getting in touch with hello@youthimpact.uk along
with a brief summary of your question or the thought you’d like support working
through and a member of our team will get in touch to finalise a time. We’ll also be
monitoring and reflecting on these engagements for our own continuous quality
improvement cycles to inform how we shape our offer for the sector.
Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR).
Covid-19: How funders can support grantees responding to the pressures of uncertainty
A new research project announced from the Nuffield Foundation: Growing up under
COVID-19.
This is a longitudinal study, involving groups of young people aged 14-18
in the UK and six other countries, over a period of 18 months. For more information
(including details for young people wishing to apply to take part in the research)
please contact: ActionRES@ecorys.com
The UK Parliament’s Select Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport are
looking into the impact of COVID-19 on DCMS’ sectors, which include Youth.
If you would like to contribute, the Call for evidence is open until 19 June.
CITIZENS ENQUIRY LAUNCHES 12 th May 2020
Youth Work and Young People Now
What is our collective sense of what is going on for youth work in current
circumstances? What are young people saying about how they are feeling?
What challenges are youth workers and organisations facing? What are the
potentials and possibilities?
CAYWA Survey
The Commonwealth Association of Youth Work Associations (CAYWA) in order to assist the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) in its definitional work on professional Youth Work and particularly the relationship to ‘non-formal education and learning’.
FUNDING
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Erasmus+
Some more information from Simon Chambers about funding opportunities and getting this information out to youth workers and youth work organisations.
The Comic Relief Community Fund (England)
Offering grants to grassroots community organisations with an income of less than
£250,000. There are two types of grants available to organisations whose work
delivers on one of Comic Relief’s four strategic themes:
- Children Survive; Thrive: projects that support children under the age of 5 to
reach their potential and have the best start in life.
- Fighting for Gender Justice: projects that improve equality for women, girls
and initiatives that help people affected by domestic violence, abuse or
exploitation due to their gender.
- A Safe Place to Be: projects that support people who are rebuilding their lives
because of homelessness or forced migration.
- Mental Health Matters: projects that support good mental health in
communities, improve access to support and tackle stigma and discrimination.
THE PERCY BILTON CHARITY
A Grant-Making Trust founded in 1962. Charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people may apply for grants towards furnishings and equipment (excluding office items), building or refurbishment projects.
Variety Club - Youth Clubs Grant
Grants for equipment is available to youth clubs in the UK that provide opportunities for improving social skills, team spirit and self esteem for young people aged from 8 to 18 years.
Tesco Bags of Help COVID19 Communities Fund
Tesco Bags of Help is responding to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis by setting up a new short-term fund to support local communities.
SECTOR Jobs
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Derbyshire County Council are seeking a Head of Service - Youth Offending and
Care Leavers based
Head of Service - Youth Offending and
Care Leavers based in Matlock, Derbyshire.
Salary £52,999 - £58,310 per annum
Full Time 37 hours per week
Closing Date: 17 May 2020
Kinetic Youth Ltd ARE RECRUITING YOUTH WORKERS
Kinetic Youth Ltd is a social enterprise that delivers Youth Work Services within the
secure estate, in both Youth Offending Institutes with under 18’s and the adult estate
with 18-25 year olds.
Leicestershire County Council are seeking a Youth Worker
Salary £24,801per annum
Full Time 37 hours per week
Closing date:10 May 2020 at midnight
Policy News
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The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
First Annual Report: Patterns in practice, key messages, and 2020 work programme.
Safeguarding systems need to do more to protect teens and infants from abuse and neglect.
Sharing good practice – Detached Youth Work special
The Trust for Developing Communities (TDC) is a charity working in Brighton & Hove and beyond. TDC staff work alongside volunteers to deliver developmental youth work, community development work, research and training across neighbourhood bases and through citywide activities, projects and programmes. TDC is committed to achieving equality for everyone.
“Detached Youth Work is about reaching young people in the places they hang out - bringing youth work to them rather than the other way round. This film gives an insight into detached youth work in Brighton by TDC and our partners”.
Crucial to consider the importance of detached youth work as youth work especially within the current context and its possible implications for youth work...?
Educating for the Middle Way: Social Capital for Peaceful Relations
An online lecture by Professor Mike Hardy, Chair of Intercultural Relations and a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University
“In an age of turbulence, of rapid change and human insecurity, all systems must adapt and respond and this includes education systems”.
Looks at Theories of Change for education systems. Much is referenced in Youth Work these days about tackling violence whether that be knife crime or extremism (these being the issues that appear to be getting most interest (media and government and subsequently funding). Youth Work is purported as an effective methodology for tackling youth violence both reactively and proactively. For those interested in this topic of work you might find the ideas expressed in this video very interesting. A call to action as Youth Worker for enablers of the middle way maybe? Some Youth Workers, we am sure, will like the idea of developing argumentative confidence!
Take a look and let us know what you think!
@iyw_tweets @DialogueSociety #youthwork
blogs
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Young people have paid enough – spare them from footing the coronavirus bill
After the financial crash, Britain’s young shouldered the burden. The Conservatives must not let that happen again.
Gaby Hinsliff, the Guardian (March 2020)
Bernard Davies reflects on Hilary Cottam’s ‘Radical Help
In the latest addition to Youth & Policy’s rich library of analysis, Bernard Davies reflects on Hilary Cottam’s ‘Radical Help’, and searches for links between youth work and Cottam’s broader propositions and proposals.
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