A toolkit to support shared language and understanding for partnership-working between youth work organisations, and schools and colleges.
About the Toolkit
Youth work and teaching: Lost in translation? is a new toolkit, which aims to strengthen collaboration between youth workers and teachers by building shared language and understanding for partnership-working to support positive outcomes for all young people.
Written for practitioners and those commissioning interventions for young people within schools, academy trusts and colleges, it explains how youth workers provide additional capacity and expertise for addressing many of the complex issues young people are facing with examples and case studies of effective partnership working.
Building on the NYA’s independent review of the impact of youth work delivered with schools which resulted in their Better together: Youth work with schools report published in June 2023, the resource responds to the rise in persistent absenteeism since the pandemic, with an absence rate in state funded secondary schools of 8% during the school year 2023-24, unmet mental health and SEND needs, and pupils whose families are experiencing poverty that may have difficulty engaging with learning due to the stress of the challenges they are experiencing.
”“Where youth work is taking place in secondary schools and colleges it is proving effective in giving young people vital access to the safe spaces and support they need to overcome barriers affecting their engagement with learning, whilst allowing teachers to focus on teaching. Through the whole-person approach which youth workers take, youth work integrated in education is proven to improve attendance, reduce disruption in the classroom and increase safeguarding disclosures.”
Harriet McCannDirector of Policy and Communications, National Youth Agency
