The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has warned the impact of spending curbs on youth work. Unison’s The Damage report found that £60m had be cut from youth service budgets between 2012 and 2014 resulting in 2,000 fewer youth workers and the closure of 350 youth centres. It warns that ”a crisis is developing as a result of local authorities scaling back or reconfiguring their youth services in response to spending cuts”. Heather Wakefield, the public services union’s head
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), in its latest report says despite steady falls in unemployment, there are still 868,000 out-of-work 16 to 24-year-olds. The IPPR highlights a striking mismatch between what young people are training for and the types of jobs available. For example, it says, 94,000 people were trained in beauty and hair for just 18,000 jobs, while only 123,000 were trained in the construction and engineering sectors for an advertised 275,000 jobs. Although the youth unemployment rate has
12 of August was designed International Youth Day by the UN General Assembly in 1999. According to UNESCO, “International Youth Day is an annual celebration of the role of young women and men as essential partners in change, as well as an opportunity to raise awareness of the challenges and hardships facing the world’s youth.” The theme of this year International Youth Day will be ‘Youth and Mental Health’ under the slogan ‘Mental Health Matters’. Youth with mental health conditions
As part of collaboration with The Association for European Training (GEB), another young person completed her internship (vocational placements) with TESYouth. TESYouth Work Experience programme offers the young people specially the unemployed among others, team work and hands-on experience in a professional work environment. As a climbing trainer for children, I joined TESYouth work experience programme. The programme helped me to earn more self confidence and to be more open minded. I had the chance to learn
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