Youth Publications
Youth Work A Model for Effective Practice PDF 287 KB
This curriculum framework suggests three core principles for youth work. It is designed to be adapted to meet the needs of children and young people. It promotes young peoples involvement in programme planning and delivery to ensure that what is being offered is relevant.
Equality Impact Assessment - (EQIA) - Promotion, through the Youth Service, of the personal and social development of young people.
Equality Impact Assessment Consultation PDF 667 KB
An Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) and consultation excercise were carried under Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act. A copy of the results document is available from Youth Service Branch, Bangor use the contact us button on the bar above.
Circular 2005/04-Encouraging a smoke free environment in youth organisations PDF 95 KB
The purpose of this circular is to encourage those responsible for youth organisation premises to implement policies which will ensure that such are smoke free environments.
The North South Exchange Consortium commissioned this research on existing North South exchange activity to identify current good practice, gaps in provision and reccommendations for future needs.
The North South Exchange Consortium digest PDF 2.5 MB summaries the findings of two reports that look at the experience of the North South school and youth exchange and co-operative activity.
Research on the current provision of North South School and Youth Exchange and Co-operative Activity 2000-2004 PDF 2.6 MB.
Research on the views of participants of North South School and Youth Exchange and Co-operation - In their own words PDF 1.5 MB.
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A Youth Work Strategy PDF 216 KB,covering the period 2005-2008, has been devised and approved by the Department and the Youth Service Liaison Forum.
The Strategy highlights some of the issues that affect the context within which youth work currently operates, including the needs, aspirations and rights of young people (aged 4-25); the background to public policy in relation to youth work; and other key issues affecting the youth service. The strategy describes a new vision for youth work and sets out the aims and priorities that need to be taken forward.
Network for Youth
In 2005 the then Minister for Education announced plans to establish a Network for Youth (Network) which will ‘strengthen the direct voice of young people in all relevant aspects of government provision’.
The Review of Public Administration policy paper 9 – ‘Youth Services’, stated that the Network would be established, monitored and supported by the Education and Skills Authority (ESA).
Since the announcement of the proposed Network, the Department has worked with the sector to develop proposals on its structure and composition. The Youth Forum, working with groups of children and young people, initially developed ideas on the possible forms the Network could take. Three structural options for the Network were developed -
- a Regional Youth-led body;
- a Network of Networks; and
- a Youth Assembly.
The Department established a Working Group in 2007 comprising of a cross section of stakeholders from the youth and children’s sectors and chaired by the Youth Council to further develop thinking on the Network and to run a public consultation on the three models for its structure.
The consultation ran until September 2008 and following the analysis of the consultation responses, the Working Group proposed that an adapted version of the ‘Network of Networks’ option should be adopted as the way forward.
The Department is now in the process of developing a policy paper on the Network that will form part of the policy code for the Education and Skills Authority, requiring it to establish, support and monitor the Network within parameters set by the Department.
Please visit this page for updates on the Network for Youth or alternatively you can visit the Network for Youth page on the Youth Council's website - www.ycni.org
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