The Importance Of Youth Work

Copper cited in Fitzsimons and Hope (2011), state that youth participation is crucial to enhance the well-being of young people, getting them involved in their community/ society working to become contributing member of a community. CYMCAL works towards getting young people to participate by, obtaining their opinions on a variety of their current services (such as mystery shopper), project evaluations and working co-productively with young people to develop services targeted at their goals and ambitions. Williamson (2005) cited in Harrison and Wise (2005) state that 'youth work should be about facilitating young people to pressure their own activities and aspirations through adherence to a principle that youth workers only do those things …show more content…
However to better services Cabinet Office (2014), work in partnership with young people to delivery effective services that young people volunteer attend. In order to get young people in to employment, more innovative projects need to be delivered using feedback from service users (Badham and Davies, 2007). Edwards and Davis (2004) state that there are five aspects to participation which are: being heard, engagement through conversation and specialised services, listen to young people’s ideas and concerns. 'Inspiring Impact Journey to Employment (JET) pack ' is aimed at getting young people employment, decreasing the current rate which is 1.07 million that are NEET. Ógáin et al (2013), has identify seven area that need to be focused on to get young people into education, employment or training (EET) which are: 'personal circumstances, emotional capability, attitudes to work, employability skills, qualifications, education and training, experience and involvement and career management (Ógáin et al p3 2013). Ógáin et al (2013), indicates that there a considerable amount of circumstance to consider when getting young people into EET. Using the JET framework wound be an effective way to deliver effective project, CYMCAL could use this framework to deliver effective employment …show more content…
Nevertheless the government are still able to say that they are funding youth work as they are injecting £11 million to 'encourage young people to get help through social action ' this venture was lunched by Nick Hurd in commitment to Sept Up to Serve 2013. This is aimed at challenging the wrongs in society introducing new ideas developing the future to be a better place. The aim of this fund is to get young people to develop skills, values and confidence transitioning in to adulthood. A central point to this is the National Citizen Service (NCS) this forces on getting young people from diverse backgrounds to work together, developing a work ready generation. However this fund focuses on four areas none of which is London (Hurd, 2014). Moreover, there has been a 26% cut in funding for the homeless sector, and has halted in five year (Crisis, 2015). CYMCAL are funded by the local authority to develop services relevant for the area, additionally Children and Young People have a list of funding bodies