Youth Work Reports

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Title	Published By	Date	Download
Youth Task Force Progress report	Department for Children, schools and families.	Summer 2009	Youth Task Force Progress Report -
Tired of Hanging Around - using sports and leisure activities to prevent anti-social behaviour by young people	Audit Commission	January 2009	Summary or Full Report - Young Peoples Views - young peoples views on the research. Click here to visit the Audit Commissions website see below for video
The Contribution of non-formal learning to Young People's Life Chances. - The paper reviews the contribution of non-formal learning, and the distinctive contribution of youth work to young peoples personal & social emotional development and to their future life chances.	National Youth Agency	April 2008	The Contribution of non-formal learning to Young People's Life chances, Learning from the evidence summary paper. The full report is avaliable to download on the NYA website.
"Growing up in Sunderland" - in partnership wtih Save the Children this report looks at child poverty	SVSYF	December 2008	"Growing up in Sunderland"
Child Poverty Policy Briefing	Child Poverty Action Group	October 2008	CPAG

In a rare outbreak of plain speaking, the Audit Commission (speaking about the assessment of Government grants to sport and leisure projects for young people) labelled the whole system a "dog's breakfast" (CYP Now, 29th Jan - 4th Feb. 09).

It found the system that funds such activities to be "wasteful, inefficient and bureaucratic"

Published : 8/2008

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