‘Shaping the Future’
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Where Now for Youth and Community Work?
Outcomes from our series of consultation events seeking
to act as a catalyst for shaping the future of youth and
community work education; to assess the changing nature
of youth and community work practice; and to support the
development of youth and community-based services
across the UK and Ireland with a view to collating evidence
for supporting developments in the sector.
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Participation
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Participation:
Overall: 415 delegates
78 Members (19% of delegates)
• 33% of our membership
• 34 of 42 (81%) of Subscribing
Institutions
161 Students (39%)
161 Sector Agencies(39%)
15 Other Uni’s/Ed.Agencies(4%)
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Key Notes:
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‘Where Now for Youth
and Community Work?’
Key note ‘views’:
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Themes Debated:
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Three Themes:
1. Education-Training
2. Practice-Profession
3. Agencies-Services
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Process and Recording
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Process and Recording
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Initial Grouping of Outcomes
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• Identity – How we define ourselves
(Articulating our sense of self)
• Sector Voice / Representation
• Professional / Collective Identity for
Youth and Community Work
• Leadership, Agency and Advocacy
Where does this come from?
• Affirming and asserting our values
and principles
• Informal Ed. & V. Participation
• Association & Empowerment
• Social Justice / Asset Approach
Identity
Integrity
Impact
InnovatioA
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• Improving the profile
• Telling the story
• Amplifying young people’s voices
(political activity)
• Greater collaboration and connectivity
• Embrace new diversity in practice
(with integrity)
• Support for transition to new models
of practice
• Develop new educational models
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Key Issues and Actions
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Identity
Possible actions:
• How do we secure /
promote a collective
identity for Y&CW?
• What does a genuine
independent voice come
from (voice for whom)?
• Who best represents this
voice; and endorses
professional practice?
• Support the
development of a body
that is a member-led
representative of the
‘profession’
• Revisit and reform the
‘PSRB’ relationship with
Universities and sector.
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Key Issues and Actions
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Integrity
Possible actions:
• What is the reference
point for professional
standards and ethics in
the sector?
• How do we establish a
common integrity?
• How can this inform a
common identity?
• Support one ‘body’ to
act as the guardian for
standards and ethics
across the profession
• A rationalisation of
occupational standards,
reference points and
terms/conditions
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Key Issues and Actions
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Innovation
Possible actions:
• What lessons can we
learn from emerging
practice in the field?
• How do we support
YCW to thrive?
• How do we re-connect
learning opportunities
across the sector?
• Capture/map changing
provision of youth work
• Promotion of good
practice & partnerships
• Create a more coherent
and inclusive learning
pathway/framework for
YCW and allied services
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Key Issues and Actions
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Impact
Possible actions:
• How do we help others • Amplify our knowledge,
to see the value in YCW
research and impact.
• How can advocate for
• Raising the profile of
young people and as
young people’s voices
agents in current policy? (and political education)
• How do we promote
• Promote and connect
YCW as a vocation of
YCW with careers and
choice for people?
sector agencies
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Next Steps for ‘StF’ Agenda
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• Consult and debate at Annual Conference in June
• Write up more detailed feedback and possible actions
under the four ‘I’ draft/generic headings.
• ‘Report’ on outcomes and actions – a full report to
include a selection of quotations and case studies
• Identify actions in priority order:
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Immediate actions for education and training agenda
Immediate actions for co-operation/collaboration
Medium term actions
Longer term development objectives
• Finalise in July and August for September circulation
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Association Priority Actions:
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Immediate Association Priorities/Actions:
1. Extending a discussion with key agency(s) to secure
a collective identity for youth and community work
2. Review and renegotiate the validation conditions
and pathways through YCW training/education
3. Develop our international partnerships and
presence – enabling member engagement
4. Enhance collaboration around research and impact
across the Association and with key agencies
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