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The charity’s core work focuses on the development of youth work by providing training to youth workers, publications and toolkits to support their work and regular events and reports aimed at those that work with young people. UK Youth's work aims to apply the principles of effective youth work to the contemporary interests and needs of ...
Historically there are a number of different motives for the development of youth work in the UK. First, early youth workers, often from the middle classes, frequently saw working with deserving young people as an expression of their Christian faith. Secondly there was a concern to instill a middle class set of values in working class youth.
For the first time youth work in the UK was taken out of the streets of London as Scouting was made into a national (and before long international) organisation. A year later in 1908, Charles Russell began his work with young men on the streets in deprived areas of Manchester , leading to the foundation of the National association of boys ...
The Young Muslims UK was established in 1984 [50] [51] and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009. It became the youth wing of the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB) in 1990 with an aim to "provide a vehicle for committed young British Muslims to combine their knowledge, skills and efforts for the benefit of one another and British society as a ...
The NYA's particular focus is on youth work and it believes that by investing in young people’s personal and social development young people are better able to live more active and fulfilling lives. It has four themes: Developing quality standards in work with young people. Supporting services for young people. Developing the youth workforce.
The Youth Training Scheme (YTS) was the name in the United Kingdom of an on-the-job training course for school leavers aged 16 and 17 and was managed by the Manpower Services Commission. The scheme was first outlined in the 1980 white paper A New Training Initiative: A Programme for Action , and it was brought into operation in 1983 to replace ...
Young European Movement UK; The Young Magicians Club; Young Muslim Advisory Group; The Young Muslims UK; Youth Fight for Jobs; Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) Youth Justice Board; Youth organisations in the United Kingdom; History of youth work
In the UK and elsewhere, the main distinction is usually made between statutory, those who work as part of a government run initiative, and non-statutory, those that work in any other context. See the article Youth work for a full explanation, and the article History of youth work for a brief time line.