PYOG: Estyn Comments on Youth Service 2004-2012

This paper has been compiled by the Wales Principal Youth Officers’ Group (PYOG) primarily as a tool for observing themes of good practice as part of a process of improving quality and providing evidence that youth work delivery on the whole has remained at a consistently high standard across this 8 year period. In the … Continued

The Needs of Young People aged 15-19 and the Youth Work Response

Summary and full report. This report is the first piece of work conducted under the auspices (and direction) of a research partnership between the University of Wales (Cardiff) School of Social and Administrative Studies and the Wales Youth Agency.  Financial support for the project was provided by the Wales Youth Agency and Health Promotion Wales.  … Continued

Decision Time for the Youth Service

Short paper which attempts to identify some of the structural changes that have taken place around the Youth Service and make some assessment of what options it has for the future and if it can survive and prosper in a changing society.

Discrete Youth Work Within a Partnership Approach

Student assignment which seeks to critically analyse how effectively youth and community work is able to maintain its discrete way of working within a policy framework driven by a partnership approach.

Audit of Local Authority Youth Service 2000-2001

Summary of findings from 10 local authority Youth Services for 2000-2001, covering: 1. Details of Youth Service – location within LA / basic details 2. Youth population / spending per head / expenditure 3. Type of youth provision 4. Funding sources 5. Staffing levels 6. Staff development and training