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Topic |
Comments |
Downloads/links |
| Accreditation |
Accreditation and opportunities for young people |
14 - 19 courses outlining progression routes for young people from entry level to level 5. |
Details of all course available |
ASDAN - accrediting your youth work curriculum. Information about all of ASDAN's awards + worksheets (Short Courses)
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ASDAN  |
| Big Society |
Procurement for a Big Society Report |
VONNE commissioned a report looking at the current state of play with regard to procurement in the North East. The report explains how government policy and practice in this area has been developed since 1997, highlighting the significant degree of continuity that exists despite the change of government in May 2010. |
Download the report |
| Careers |
NCVYS has produced seven career information sheets (PDFs) for individuals interested in paid or voluntary work connected to working with young people in the voluntary and community youth sector. Each information sheet covers areas such as what it is like to be in the role, the work, routes in, qualifications and training |
The seven are:
• Young People's Housing Support Worker
• Youth Worker
• Youth Volunteer Co-ordinator
• Youth Health Worker
• Youth Participation Worker
• Youth Sports Worker
• Youth Advice Worker |
Download here |
| Guides |
Guides for professionals working with young people and guides for young people. |
Making a Difference Together is guide to planning, monitoring and evaluating voluntary and community sector collaborative working. This practical guide is for charities considering or approaching collaborative working. It covers the steps and issues needed to consider to develop an effective evaluation framework for a collaborative project, and helps organisations to know whether collaborative working really is making a difference. |
Further information |
| Free Guide on How to Make the Most of Social Media |
The Focus guide includes overviews of tools like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and concise explanations of techniques like blogging. There are excellent case studies as well which demonstrate how others have put the theory into practice successfully. The Focus guide sets out some steps you can take to successfully incorporate social media into your strategy. It's packed with examples from recent campaigns such as the Children's Food Campaign, Colalife and the British Heart Foundation. |
Visit the website and download |
| Health |
All health related resources covering various topics are available by clicking the link |
Covers all areas of health including; Teenage Pregnancy, drugs, alcohol, sexual health. |
Health resources |
| New online booking system - South of Tyne & Wear PCT |
A new web based online health information booking and request system for anyone working to improve health including voluntary and third sector organisations |
The system |
Health-e - online learning tools
Following the successful launch of these tools, they are now available FREE TO USE online. |
The National Youth Agency has developed a set of FREE online resources to help youth professionals work more effectively on health issues with young people. There are five e-learning modules to work through or dip into, it is up to you. These are designed to offer an introduction to key health areas which learners can then build on through further research, training and learning. |
Find out more |
| Ice-breakers |
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Examples of icebreakers to use with youth groups |
Examples |
| Key Documents |
Local (Sunderland) |
Children and Young Peoples Plan - Three year delivery plan 2010 - 2013
Children and Young Peoples Plan 2010-2025 - The fifteen year strategy - Making Sunderland a child and young person-friendly city |
delivery plan 2010 - 2025
strategy 2010 - 2015
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| Regional (North East) |
Young People - Alcohol and Sexual Risk Taking in North East April 2010. Some useful stats and interesting read. |
Briefing for Commissioners, Quality Standards, Project Overview, Literature Review |
| National |
School term dates 2010/2011 |
School term dates here |
| Policy |
SVSYF - Research, Consultation and Engagement with Children and Young People Ethical Code of Practice |
This Code of Practice is designed to support all those engaged in consultation, research or engagement with young people. The Code is also intended to reassure young people, parents/guardians and their support staff that research is carried out in a professional and ethical manner. |
download |
| A detailed model code of conduct |
Trustees code of conduct |
download |
Localism Bill |
The Government has published a Localism Bill which proposes a significant decentralisation of power and decision making. The Bill intends to put an end to the hoarding of power within central government and top-down control of communities, allowing local people the freedom to run their lives and neighbourhoods in their own way. |
further information
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| Youth and Policy Journal |
Youth and Policy Journal offers a critical space for the discussion of youth policy and youth work theory and practice. Activities of the editors include the organisation of related conferences, research and book publication. Regular activities include the biannual ‘History of Community and Youth Work’ and the ‘Thinking Seriously’ conferences. |
read online
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| Reports |
Youth Homelessness |
Youth homelessness charity Depaul UK has published Homelessness prevention: Can we afford not to? Reconnecting families to prevent youth homelessness. The report found that local authorities could save in the region of £1.2m each if they invest in prevention schemes, such as family mediation within schools and the community, and parenting classes, to tackle youth homelessness. It said that on average, £9,000 could be saved for every young person that was prevented from falling into homelessness, although the cost varied between areas. |
Download the report |
| Child poverty |
The Campaign to End Child Poverty has published the first installment of a two part report providing a child poverty map of the UK. The publication provides local authority and constituency information for England, which reveals that seven of the top ten parliamentary constituencies for child poverty are in London. |
Download the report |
| Children's Happiness |
The Children's Society has published How Happy are our Children. The report finds that children's wellbeing has taken a significant blow as a direct result of the financial crisis. It questioned 4,000 children and young people between October 2010 and February 2011, and finds that young people whose family income has decreased in the past year are more than twice as likely to have low wellbeing than those whose family income has increased. The biggest influences on respondents' wellbeing were named as friends and family. The proportion of young people with low wellbeing was found to be higher in households where no adults were in full-time work at 16 per cent compared with 10 per cent of other children. |
Download the report |
Young Carers Report
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The Family Rights Group has published Big Bruv, Little Sis. The report says that young people who care for younger siblings face a battle to get support from councils and other agencies. The report spoke to young people who are raising their younger brothers or sisters to prevent them going in to the care system, through a series of interviews and questionnaires. It revealed that many carers said they struggle to get the support they need and some sibling carers felt that their youth meant their voice was even less likely to be heard. |
Read the report |
| Social Impact Bonds - An Introduction |
Chris Ford from Newcastle University Business School has created a presentation about Social Impact Bonds. It outlines the model, contextual information and preconditions of Social Impact Bonds. |
Download presentation |
| Budget March 2011 - What Does it Mean for Young People and the Voluntary and Community Youth Sector? |
29 March 2011 HM Treasury has published the budget for 2011. NCVYS has produced a briefing paper highlighting key points for young people and the voluntary and community youth sector. In particular the budget announced £180 million funding for up to 50,000 additional apprenticeship places over the next four years, with 40,000 of these opportunities focused on young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs). There is also further funding for an additional 80,000 work experience places for young people, costing £20 million a year for the next two years. The Budget also announced a number of 3 measures of relevance to the voluntary sector, including proposals to: simplify Gift Aid; encourage wealthy people to give more to charity - in particular through legacies; promote the take-up of Community Interest Tax Relief; and extend the allowance for passenger payments to include volunteers. |
Read the NCVYS briefing
View Budget 2011 |
| Surveys & Consultations |
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There are currently no surveys open |
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| Youth Sector Development Fund |
Youth Sector Development Fund Managing Body |
The Managing Body of the YSDF is currently producing a series of Briefing Papers looking at the learning from the programme.
They are split into three strands:
Supporting a Stronger Civil Society
Paper 1, What Works Best for the Youth Sector?
Paper 2, What Development Tools Work Best?
Paper 3, Adapting for Sustainability
Paper 4, The Governance Premium.
Commissioning and Working Effectively with CSOs
Paper 5, Lessons for Future Commissioners from the YSDF Programme
Paper 6, CSOs and Local Authorities Working Effectively Together
Youth Focused Activities
Paper 7, Young People who are Not in Education, Employment or Training
Paper 8, Volunteering
Paper 9, Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour
Paper 10, Alternative Education
Paper 11, Positive Activities on Friday and Saturday Night |
Papers 1 – 4 are available to download and the remaining papers will be available very shortly. |
| Youth Work Tools |
CYP Now |
CYP Now has brought together virtual youth work activity resource packs under different topics, such as sexual health and alcohol. Each pack contains activities from the pages of CYP Now and Youth Work Now, and links to external quizzes, games, worksheets and other activities. |
CYP Now online Resources |
| Charities Evaluation Services |
This booklet offers a simple but systematic approach to monitoring and evaluating your work. It can be used by trustees, staff and volunteers of third sector organisations. It will be particularly useful for those who have responsibility for self-evaluation and for using the information both internally and for reporting to funders and investors. |
Download the booklet |
| Football Foundation |
A new sustainability toolkit This foundation has launched this new sustainability toolkit to help organisations plan for the longer-term sustainability of a project or organisation. |
Website |
| NCVO Directory of Approved Consultants |
If you are considering using a consultant but don't know where to start, this popular directory lists nearly 200 consultants who have experience working with voluntary sector organisations. |
Access an online version |
| Web links |
NCVYS - (National Council for Voluntary Youth Services |
The Independent Voice of the Voluntary Youth Sector |
website |
| Governance Pages |
The link is to a website with lots of information on governance and management committees for community groups and small voluntary organisations. |
Website |
| UK Youth |
UK Youth is building a unique online resource bank of activity and discussion ideas. Each month we are adding more resources. The latest batch of themes include 'Fun and games' and 'Feel good factors'. |
Download |
| British Youth Council |
British Youth Council campaigning resource centre Includes BYC Manifesto and briefings, Choose Youth materials and briefing, Lobbying guides, Rights Guides and Votes at 16 |
Website |
Charities Evaluation Services |
Charities Evaluation Services Website offers a range of publications on monitoring and evaluation, quality, benchmarking and other topics. |
website
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