In November 2009, the Unit, in conjunction with Government Office North East, established the Network of Integrated Youth Support Services in the North East. The Network has been developed as a response to the changing nature of youth work and youth service delivery. The introduction of greater integration,...

A wide range of resources, often developed through generic youth work practice, is available to practitioners and agencies to support the development of participatory work.  Many of these toolkits and publications are being used within the North East region to build the capacity of health professionals...

The Regional Youth Work Unit – North East (RYWU-NE) was awarded a tender to deliver training to both health professionals and young people with the joint aims of: Enhancing the knowledge and skills of health professionals to enable their effective engagement with young people in health service...

Why study social pedagogy and its implications for youth work? This study was produced in a response to the fact that social pedagogy is now being taken up with greater interest in the UK, and is featuring more in discussions on workforce reform. Social pedagogy is a concept commonly used in European...

Introduction and Context This research project has been carried out on behalf of the North East Regional Youth Work Unit. It builds on a number of reports that have been written over the past five years focussing on issues affecting the voluntary and community sector in the region and is intended to...

The Museums, Archives and Galleries (MAG) Offer Project was developed to improve the way that cultural organisations engage with young people, and develop services which are “young person friendly”. The development of an “offer” to young people builds on the work which has been taking place both...

?As part of its VCS Engage contract the Regional Youth Work Unit undertook to update its data base of VCS Representatives on strategic bodies, principally, Children’s Trust Boards, Children and Young Peoples Strategic Partnership Boards and Local Safeguarding Children Boards.  In addition it was felt...

Youth Policy Exchange is a concept that has been developed by the Regional Youth Work Unit and a steering group of representatives from the Regional Assembly and Save the Children UK and is supported in principle by Government Office for the North East. Although there is a distinction between consultation...

Over the past twelves months the Regional Youth Work Unit has been coordinating work on the development of the Regional Youth Work Workforce Strategy for the North East. Following consultation with a range of groups including the Regional Principal Youth Officers group, the Regional Training and Development group,...

The Green Paper outlines the Governments vision for ensuring all young people are given the best chance to succeed in life through increased opportunities and taking their responsibilities seriously. It outlines how young people, parents, local and central Government, and all other providers of services...