Supporting individuals in youth and community work practice

Supporting individuals in
youth and community work
practice

Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Summarise key legislation of direct relevance to youth and community work practice and
community development...................................................................................................................3
P2 Describe how youth and community workers can enable young people to develop themselves
and contribute positively to society...................................................................................................4
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P3 Describe how a local community initiative utilises youth and community work to enable
positive outcomes for young people..................................................................................................5
P4 Explain the responsibilities of different youth and community workers within the initiative
identified............................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................6
P5 Describe the responsibilities of youth and community workers when working in
multidisciplinary teams......................................................................................................................6
P6 Explain the value of a multidisciplinary approach to youth and community work.......................7
TASK 4.................................................................................................................................................8
P7 Describe a range of key issues of inequality and their impact on social cohesion........................8
P8 Analyse the impact of key issues on the development and wellbeing of an identified young
person requiring the support of youth and community services.........................................................9
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Youth and community worker can be describe as those workers that belongs to different
clusters and social groups. These are working in order to support different types of people
and individual in several phases of their lives (Kapoulitsas and Corcoran, 2015). It is very
important to support and enhance the moral of youth and community works as this will lead
to help in enhancing the overall performance. Youth and community worker are very
effective in enabling young worker to develop their skills as well as contribute positively to
society. This will assist in gain g positive outcomes. This report is based on the Youth and
community worker of UK that are working in care centre within the United Kingdom area.
This report includes different legislation related to youth and community work practices as
well as identify different ways through which community worker enable development of
people. Moreover it consist of local community initiative along with the responsibility of
youth and community workers. In this report role of worker in multidisciplinary teams are
identified as well as its values are also determined. Apart from this different issues and
problems are also determined.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
P1 Summarise key legislation of direct relevance to youth and community work practice
and community development.
There are different types of rules and regulations are developed that will support in
directing youth and community worker. It is very crucial to understand and determine
different legislation that has direct relevance related to the worker practices as well as
development of community. This will lead to providing proper guidance and successful
completion of task and activities. It is essential for youth and community worker to consider
these legislation in order to perform their task and activities more ethically. There ser several
key legislation that will support in directing youth and community work practices and these
legislation are mention below in detail.
UK youth policy – There are various policies are developed in UK regarding youth and
community workers. These policies lead to have direct impact on overall performance of

worker as well a development of community. Some example of UK Policies regarding youth
and community includes national youth policy of UK. This policies is governed by different
legislation and practices as it consist of different aspect such as promotion of positive culture
and creativity, social inclusion of youth as well as increase in education quality. The
legislation related to UK youth policy will lead to have direct impact on development of
community as this will enhance to performance of youth and community task. It is crucial for
care centre home to adhere these legislation and UK youth policies as this will lead to have
direct impact on overall performance of youth and community practices.
Children and social work art, 2017 - This is one of the essential legislation that is
developed in order to provide support and welfare to young children (Garcia-Reid, Peterson
and Reid, 2015). This act was develop in 2017 and motive of UK government to create this
legislation is to promote safeguarding as well as well being of children. According to this act
all activities that is conducted by centre care home or community worker will be in support of
children by considering their interest. The children and social work action will lead to have
emphasis on their mental and physical health of individual and this legislation have direct
relevance to the growth of community
P2 Describe how youth and community workers can enable young people to develop
themselves and contribute positively to society.
There are different strategies and plan developed by youth and community worker in
order to provide assistance to society. These strategies will lead to enhance the overall
performance of youth and community worker as well as help in conducting their task and
activity in more effective manner. It is essential the work of youth and community worker
will lead enable young people in order to develop themselves. Strategies that is developed by
centre home will lead to have significant impact on performance of youth and community
worker and they are able to contribute positivity in growth and development of society.
Youth and community workers can improve the performance and living of young people by
considering 5C’s such as connection, confidence, character, competences and contribution.
Different ways through which youth and community worker lead to contribute to society
positivity are mentioned below with description.
Training and educations – This is one of the effective and efficient techniques that is used
by youth and community worker in order to enhance the level of education in people. This
approach will assist in improving confidence, contribution and competencies of young