Please click here to download the 'Across the 7Cs' article on using ITC and multimedia as tools for youth work - previously published in three parts in the Source.
The programme and its aims
UK Youth received a substantial £750,000 grant from the DCSF, (Department for Children, Schools and Families) for its three year 'Movers and Shapers' Programme.
UK Youth ‘Movers and Shapers’ programme is giving disadvantaged young people aged 13-19, unprecedented support to pursue excellence in the provision of life impacting key services.
The programme is building the capacity of UK Youth and its network to support 95 young people to seek the views of over 1,500 young people, to use these views to develop, pilot and disseminate new models of collaboration with 24 public and private service providers. These include health care, parenting agencies and UK Youth itself.
It aims to provide 75,000 young people with opportunities to achieve Every Child Matters outcomes via 4,000 improved services and 8,000 up-skilled workers across England.
Using IT as a tool for participation
The programme uses IT to communicate with, and betwen, the national UK Youth Voice group, and the four local influence groups; Maidstone Young Families Group (Maidstone, Kent), Connexions NDC (Coventry), Habilitas (Suffolk) and The Phoenix (Bolton)
With IT and social media becoming an everyday part of young people’s lives, it is becoming more and more important to understand how these can be best used as a cost effective tool to support and enable young people’s active participation.
This series of articles aims to give an overview, illustrating the breadth of the ways in which you can use technology, in a safe way, to support participative work with young people.
Click here to read about internet safety when working with young people
Young People's Consultation
All groups within the programme, both national and local, are involved in consulting with young people on a range of issues that affect them.
UK Youth Voice is currently undertaking work consulting with young people about their experiences of UK Youth services.Their findings will be presented at their annual National Conference this summer.UK Youth Voice is open to any young person aged 16-25, for more information on the group and how you can join please click here.
Ways to get involved in the programme:
Contribute to Young People's consultation:
UK Youth Voice are currently conducting e-consultations with young people on the following.
·Young people who are members of youth groups can carry out the survey designed to help improve the organisational structure of UK Youth Voice itself. click on the link to take the survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AlUUXX_2bPBDougWxBPN7ThA_3d_3d
·Young people who have been to UK Youth’s Activity Centre at Avon Tyrrell can give their feedback on the experience as part of a review being carried out by UK Youth Voice. click on the link to take the survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PGr5zOtXqSTNBe_2bXoqBgIQ_3d_3d
·Young people who have taken part in the Youth Achievement Awards can give their views on the scheme via the third survey. click on the link to take the survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hBIPKlSfyosVR2IQ_2bWL0Hg_3d_3d
If young people with whom you work are in the target group for a surveys, why not encourage them to join in? UK Youth Voice will present the findings at the annual conference next month.
Attend UK Youth Voice Conference in July 2009. Delivered for young people by young people, this conference offers a great weekend of participatory workshops, discussions and the time to explore ideas with others from across the country. It is open to all young people from across the UK aged 16-25. For more infomation, to see the flyer and to find out how to apply, click here
If you would like further information about UK Youth 'Movers & Shapers' Programme, contact Carola Adams on 01952 433 965 carola@ukyouth.org or claire Dever claire.d@ukyouth.org
