Supporting Individuals In The Youth And Community Work Place

Supporting Individuals In The
Youth And Community
Work Place

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................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............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Describe how a local community initiative utilises youth and community work to enable
positive outcomes for young people...........................................................................................6
P4 Explain the responsibilities of different youth and community workers within the initiative
identified.....................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Describe the responsibilities of youth and community workers when working in
multidisciplinary teams...............................................................................................................8
P6 Explain the value of a multidisciplinary approach to youth and community work...............9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P7 Describe a range of key issues of inequality and their impact on social cohesion..............10
P8 Analyse the impact of key issues on the development and well-being of an identified
young person requiring the support of youth and community services....................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Youth & community work refers to a setting in which an individual work with children
and young people for helping them in order to improve their social, educations and personal
development. It includes to evaluate vulnerable of individual in society who were excluded from
education and training to support them at different level (Driskell, 2017). However, there are
various children who are not capable to afford their education due to their poor condition their
community workers provide them support to become educated as well as skilled. In context of
this assignment, it is based on Oxfam which is an independent charitable organisation focus on
alleviation of global poverty and help people to enhance their basic social skills. It was founded
at Oxford in England in the year around 1942, almost 77 years ago. This report will focus on
legislations and way of working of youth & community workers. It will also includes
responsibilities of various workers of youth community within determined initiative and
multidisciplinary teams. The several problems related to the factor of inequality and its impact
on social cohesion is given below.
TASK 1
P1 Summarise key legislation of direct relevance to youth and community work practice and
community development.
Youth and community work practice are the practices at professional level for performing
social work by focusing on social system as well as social change. Such social workers help
individuals of society to function by conducting some need assessments and giving referrals to
sources in the society. Some of the key legislations for the development of youngsters and
children in a community are discussed below.
Human Rights: Poor individuals living in a community or society often face
discrimination and isolation for simply being poor. Human right act help young people an
children by exposing government for failing to fulfil the needs of poor individuals in areas like
health, education and even access to clean water (Thorpe, 2016). They exposes out how the poor
individuals are more closer to exploitation just because of their economic status. They analyse
how the economic equality is being developed and created by mismanagement of resources for
public purpose. Each and every individual in youth and child has a right to live according to the
standards and needs of well-being. Human right states to live with dignity, respect and without

any discrimination. Oxfam is an organisation which implement human rights in their
organisation to make sure that their service reach youth and children without any kind of
discrimination. Human rights will help such individuals to life from poverty and injustice.
Equality act: This act is useful for legal protection of individuals from any sort of
discrimination in a wider society. The act promotes a fair an equal society. It protects individuals
who has been isolated from the society because of poor education, low financial status and lack
of knowledge (Maccio and Ferguson, 2016). They protect them from being treated unfairly and
give them a position in society. Oxfam implement such equality rights in their organisation and
they provide services to the poor individuals and to those who are fighting for their fundamental
rights. They provide food, funds and education along with medical facilities to the individuals
including youngsters and children without any kind of discrimination and inequality.
Ofsted: It is and office that provide education and other basic facilities to the individuals.
They are also involved in safeguarding an protecting children. Through OFSTED children and
youth in a society could be able to educate and learn some skills for reducing poverty. Educating
young individuals will help them to contribute in society and help them to reduce poverty. Work
of this policy is evidence based and thus help to minimize poverty level and illiteracy in the
society. They provide learning skills to the individuals and also regulate child day care in care
homes.
P2 Describe how youth and community workers can enable young people to develop themselves
and contribute positively to society
Youth and community work contribute to the learning and development of young people
in a society. The prior objective of youth and community workers is to enable youngsters and
children to develop while working with them to enhance their personal, educational and social
skills. They help the youngsters to raise their voice in society in order to reach their potential.
Workers of youth and community help young people by building their self-esteem and
confidence (Peters, 2017). It is the responsibility of a youth worker,to make a large difference in
the lives of young people who are struggling in a society for their individual rights. Some
societies discriminate such individuals just because they are poor and they are not well educated.
Hence, youth and community workers support these individuals and provide them services such