Youth work is about building on and providing new life learning and employment opportunities for young people aged 10-19 (25 for SEND), supporting ALL in an informal educational setting, to achieve and be successful...

There are many reasons "Why Now", the timing is ideal for a new understanding of the role youth work, alongside formal education, parents, families and the wider communities, plays in the personal and social development of young people and equips them with the resources they need to ‘succeed’. Such success we might define as, “finding a place within the community offering security, fulfilment and strong interpersonal relationships”.