{"id":6156,"date":"2019-06-17T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infed.org\/mobi\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:41:20","slug":"transforming-youth-work-resourcing-excellent-youth-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/welcome\/transforming-youth-work-resourcing-excellent-youth-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming youth work &#8211; resourcing excellent youth services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30742\" src=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transforming-youth-work-697x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transforming-youth-work-697x1024.jpg 697w, https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transforming-youth-work-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transforming-youth-work-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transforming-youth-work-768x1128.jpg 768w, https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transforming-youth-work.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29596\" src=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/infed-archives-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"23\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Published in December 2002, this is the English Department of Education and Skills&#8217; specification for youth services. It continued and refined the government&#8217;s &#8216;modernization&#8217; attempt to alter the character of youth service work.<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywf.org.uk\/uploads\/policy\/REYSDec2002.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/strong> the report [This is a very large file &#8211; 3249kb &#8211; if you have problems connecting please let us know via <a href=\"http:\/\/infed.org\/feedback.htm\">feedback<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>For a commentary on the report go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/from-youth-work-to-youth-development-the-new-government-framework-for-english-youth-services\/\"><strong>From youth work to youth development<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to cite the piece<\/b>: Department for Education and Skills (2002) <i> Transforming Youth Work &#8211; resourcing excellent youth services, <\/i> London: Department for Education and Skills\/Connexions. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywf.org.uk\/uploads\/policy\/REYSDec2002.pdf\">http:\/\/www.mywf.org.uk\/uploads\/policy\/REYSDec2002.pdf<\/a>. Retrieved: insert date]<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">This piece has been reproduced here by the informal education homepage under licence from from the Controller of HMSO and the Queen\u2019s Printer for Scotland. The informal education homepage holds a licence to reproduce public service information and another to reproduce Parliamentary material.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">First placed in the archives: May 2003. Updated June 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in December 2002, this is the English Department of Education and Skills&#8217; specification for youth services. It continued and refined the government&#8217;s &#8216;modernization&#8217; attempt to alter the character of youth service work. 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