Good Practice Guidelines For Healthy Youth Work

Good youth work has always sought to improve the health of young people and many projects address health issues with young people.

The Good Practice Guidelines provide an evidence-based and tested quality assurance tool for staff and managers in the public and voluntary sectors, commissioning bodies and other partners to assess the quality and effectiveness of this work.

Who is it for?

Increasingly, work with young people to develop their personal, social, health and emotional development takes place in a wide range of settings and by people with a wide range of job titles. We believe that these guidelines will be useful to:

• Workers with young people in non-formal education settings, using youth work techniques and values. This could include workers in, for example, Youth Offending Teams and YIPs, Pupil Referral Units, Connexions or support staff in housing projects, as well as more ‘traditional’ youth work settings in the statutory or voluntary and community sectors.
• Managers in services working with young people, as a quality assurance tool to assess delivery and seek improvements.
• Commissioners of services for young people through Children’s Trusts, PCTs or other providers, to set a baseline for delivery.

By offering criteria relevant to differing levels of activity around health work, the guidelines are just as useful to a small local youth club offering two nights per week in a village hall as they are to larger centres offering a broad health based range of activities.

Hard copies of the Guidelines cost £25.00, and include a CD with the guideline sections in electronic format. The Guidelines are also downloadable.

Complete the Good Practice Guidelines request form if you would like to receive Word versions by email.

Email Simon Beard for more information.

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