File Category: Policy

YOUTH WORK IN WALES BACKGROUND INFORMATION Youth work involves a broad range of activities, concerned with education in its widest sense. The most familiar form of youth service provision is the youth club or youth centre. Some youth services employ outreach workers, whose aim is to encourage young people to make use of youth provision.

In November 1978 a one-day conference was held in Llandrindod Wells to identify ways in which services to the youth affairs field in Wales could be developed including the contribution of existing services offered by National Youth Bureau. This led to this proposal and an application for funding to the Welsh Office for the establishment … Continued