Youth and Community Work: Key Legislation, Responsibilities, and Multidisciplinary Approach

This document discusses key legislation relevant to youth and community work, describes the responsibilities of youth and community workers, and explains the value of a multidisciplinary approach. It also explores how a local community initiative can utilize youth and community work to enable positive outcomes for young people.

Youth
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Community Work

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INTRODUCTION
Youth work is considered as a support community whose aimed is at adolescents and
older children. There are numbers of services as well as institutions are exist for respective
purpose which depend upon the community and culture. At United Kingdom youth works are
conducted in order to develop an environment where young peoples get engaged in educational
activities that are informal (Batsleer, 2017). Activities which are conducted by youth work
community at United Kingdom and Canada are recreation, social nature and design, educational
activities and so on. Youth Centre taken for this report is Brighton Youth Centre (BYC) which is
establish in 1917 by Brighton Boy's Club at a small house at St. John's Street, Brighton, United
Kingdom. This place is exciting hub of activities open for all young peoples between age of 5 to
19 years, they mainly focus on age group of 13 to 19 years.
The main aim of conducting report is to develop strategies in order to stop trainees who
are leaving training school permanently or short time duration. This is mainly take place due to
discrimination at the training school or centre. Topics included in this report are different
approaches for youth and community work practices and it also include roles and responsibilities
of youth and community workers. Along with this, it will include role of multi-disciplinary team
leads to youth and community work practices as well as it will also include impact of
contemporary issues in the society on youth peoples and role of social and community work.
TASK 1
P1. Summarise key legislation of direct relevance to youth and community work practice and
community development.
Legislation is considered as law that has been developed by a governing bodies and
legislature. It is also developed at for the different levels such as national, state and local level.
Through effective legislation a company or community able to get proper guidelines related to
how to conduct business operations and functions in effective manner. There are numbers of key
legislations which are direct relevant to youth and community work practices and community
development (Clarke, 2018). From that some main legislations are given below which are
adopted by Brighton Youth Centre in order to ensure that they can stop those trainee who are
leaving training school are given below:-
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 Data protection Act: This Act is developed by United Kingdom of Parliament in year
1998 in order to protect personal data which are stored on a computer or in paper filing
system (Coburn and Gormally, 2017). In respect of Brighton Youth Centre, they need to
consider respective legislation because through that they able to ensure security of
adolescents and older children personal data or information. This will also help in
minimising illegal activities which may conducted by using personal informations. Equality Act: Respective legislation is developed in 2010 by Parliament of United
Kingdom. Its purpose is to consolidate, updating as well as supplementing the numbers of
prior Acts and regulations which are formed the basis of Anti discrimination law at the
Great Britain. In respect of Brighton Youth Centre, by adopting this legislation their
management able to ensure that there is no discrimination is done with young and older
children. This can be done on the basis of colour, race, culture, language, age difference,
believe and many more. Carers and disabled children Act: This legislation is developed in 2002 by United
Kingdom Parliament in order to develop as well as maintain relationship among the
carers as well as disabled children. In context of Brighton Youth Centre, by adopting this
legislation they able to ensure that they are developing effective relationship among the
carers of respective care centre and children who are taken there. This will also ensure
that carer are supporting them financially and non financially.
 Health and social care Act: The respective legislation bill is developed in 2011 and
legislation is developed or pass in 2012 by Parliament of United Kingdom in order to
structure National health service at health and social care centre (Cooper, 2017). In
context of Brighton Youth Centre, by adopting this legislation they able to ensure that
they are providing quality health as well as social care services to the children at their
centre. This will also help them in treating older and young children in effective manner.
These are some of the main legislation which are followed by Brighton Youth Centre in
order to conduct their youth and community work practice as well as community development
activities in effective manner. Through this they also able to ensure that trainees can effectively
conduct their training session there.
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P2. Describe how youth and community workers can enable young people to develop themselves
and contribute positively to society.
Youth and community workers are those who provide supports to the young peoples at
their communities. It will include numbers of practices such as youth clubs, sports clubs, drama
classes, music classes and many more. These young and community workers mainly helps young
peoples in developing themselves as well as they also contributes to positively at the society.
There are various activities are done by youth and community workers in order to develop young
peoples and contribute to positivity at society, from which some main activities are given below
that are conducted by Brighton Youth Centre for attaining respective objective. Moreover that
will also help them in stopping those trainee who are leaving training session in the middle. Counsel children: According to this respective centre conduct counselling of children,
family and adolescents in order to to analyse their issues related to health, substance
abuse, social adjustment, physical abuse and child care (What does a Child and Youth
Worker do?, 2017). Then accordingly members of Brighton Youth Centre plan strategies
or activities for personal develop which contribute to positively at the society. Interact children and adolescents: In respect of this role members of Brighton Youth
Centre will conduct interview with children adolescents in order to assess their issues or
problems. For this they can conduct various activities like observing family life,
analysing children and adolescents report, interviewing parents in order to determine their
capabilities to raise child and many more. Review background of children: In respect Brighton Youth Centre, their members
conduct this practice in which analyse background of children as well as its family so that
they can develop strategies, plans or activities accordingly (Zeldin and et. al., 2016).
Through that young peoples get develop themselves in effective as well as successful
manner and it will also encourage them to contribute to make society better and positive. Organize community events: Brighton Youth Centre members need to conduct or
organize community events or programmes or meetings for children as well as
adolescents (Driskell, 2017). This is so because through it they can understand
themselves which encourage as well as help them in development along with this it will
also leads to contribution to positive society development in effective as well as
successful way.
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 Conduct regular evaluation: Members of Brighton Youth Centre will also need to
organized evaluation session on the regular basis so that they can analyse development of
young children (Higashida, 2017). Along with this it will also help in ensuring the well
being of adolescents as well as children in effective way which lead to their self
development and creating of positive environment based society.
These are the main practices which are conducted by Brighton Youth Centre in order to
enable young children and adolescents for their development as well as it will also help in
developing positively to society. Through this activities respective centre also able to ensure that
trainees will get convinced to rejoin training session as well as complete it till end.
TASK 2
P3. Describe how a local community initiative utilises youth and community work to enable
positive outcomes for young people.
There are various activities or practices are conducted by a local community in order to
enable positive outcome for the young peoples as well as through it young and community centre
also able to attain their desire goal. In respect of Brighton Youth Centre they are going through
an issue which is related to discrimination due to which trainees are leaving their course in the
middle for short time duration or permanently. So in order to overcome this issues local
community and respective centre can conduct several practices such as they can educate people
about the effectiveness of course as well as they can also organize session or meeting with
professional (Kutcher, Wei and Behzadi, 2017). This is so because through that people get
convinced as well as it will also encourage them to rejoin the course and complete it effectively.
Along with this, they can also show them future forecast of their career which help them in
analysing effectiveness of skills, abilities and capabilities that will enhanced through course that
they are leaving in middle. In addition to this, there are numbers of benefits which are gain by a
person through completing courses provided by Brighton Youth Centre such as they enhance
their skills and abilities. This will also help them in feeling more confident as well as motivated
that lead to bright future and career in the field where they want to get job.
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P4. Explain the responsibilities of different youth and community workers within the initiative
identified
Youth and community workers are those who support to young people at their
community. Main responsibility of youth workers is to do planning, organizing, organize
meeting and event of community and so on in order to redress inequalities as well as they also
facilitate personal, social as well as emotional development of young children who belong to age
group of 13 to 19 (Whittaker and et. al., 2016). There are numbers of youth and community
workers whose work as well as responsibilities are different, from which some are given below:- Advice workers: The main responsibility of these workers is to listen, diagnose issues of
persons and provide guidance as well as advice to them so that they can resolve it
effectively (Youth and community work, 2020). They also conduct research work when
required as through which they can develop advice for common issues or problems. They
also provide support to their clients so that they deal with issues effectively. Family support workers: The main role and responsibilities of these type of workers is to
conduct initial assessment of family's needs so that they can identify as well as plan
effective support to them according to their issues and requirement. They also adhere to
the professional activities legislation and standard which will include safety, diversity,
equity, confidentiality and many others. Social workers: There are several responsibilities are performed by a social workers such
as they conduct interview with children, family or any person in order to assess and
analysing their situation. Moreover they also organize as well as manage packages related
to support in order to enable peoples to lead their life by fulfilling essential requirements. Community development workers: Responsibilities of this type of workers are
identifying skills, assets, need and issues of community as well as they also ensure that
local public have their own stay (Lardier and et. al., 2018). Along with this they also
develop new resources in dialogue along with community as well as they also evaluate
existing programmes and they also develop links among the other groups and agencies.
 Youth workers: The main responsibilities of youth workers are to evaluate needs as well
as requirement of young people in order to plan as well as deliver programmes effectively
which are related to several areas. Those areas can be fitness, health, drugs, smoking,
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violence, gangs, bullying and relationship. They also conduct monitoring as well as
reviewing the quality of local youth work in order to develop development programmes.
These are some of the main types of youth workers along with their responsibilities
because every youth community have their own motive or aim and they conduct work
accordingly to attain their desire goal.
TASK 3
P5. Describe the responsibilities of youth and community workers when working in
multidisciplinary teams.
Youth and community worker are those who conduct different and various practices in
order to provide support the society as well as they also ensure that peoples effectively resolve
their issues and fulfil requirement (Leung and et. al., 2017). On the other hand, multi-disciplinary
team is consider as group of professionals from one or more different departments who generally
work together to develop effective decision in order to conduct work effectively for attain desire
goal. There are numbers of advantages of multi-disciplinary team are it will lead to get facilities
form professionals, it improve service coordination, it also expedites referral procedure and
many more. Along with this, there are various responsibilities conducted by youth and
community worker of Brighton Youth Centre when they are working at the multi-disciplinary
team in order to stop trainee who are leaving training school permanently or short period of time.
For example workers develop multi-disciplinary team who are combination of professionals or
expertise so that they can easily convince trainee to continue course till its last date (Thomas,
2016). Moreover, in respective type of team workers of youth and community will organize
meeting or event so that professional can effectively interact with the trainees who are leaving
the course permanently or for some duration of time.
P6. Explain the value of a multidisciplinary approach to youth and community work.
Multidisciplinary approach is consider as process which include drawing of an effective
practices from multiple disciplines in order to redefine issues that are present outside of normal
boundaries as well as it also help in reaching to solutions which may based on a new
understanding of complex situation (Liang and et. al., 2017). Multidisciplinary approach also
used in social work such as in case of child abuse, respective approach will allow physicians,
social workers, nurses and mental health workers to work collaborative in order to resolve
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complex issues. Team of multidisciplinary approach will take several forms that may depend on
demonstrated needs of clinical setting. Moreover, by multidisciplinary team Brighton Youth
Centre members also able to stop trainees who are leaving course in the middle of training
session because professional convey them benefits of attaining course. Along with this,
multidisciplinary approach is also essential for the youth and community workers, from which
some main are given below: Positively beneficial for future career development- It is one of the effective factor
which enhance the value of multi-disciplinary approach while conducting at youth and
community work (Miles and et. al., 2018). According to this through multi-disciplinary
approach youth and community workers able to develop effective strategies and plans
related to the future career development. Moreover, that will also help in understand
issues and requirements of others for creating strategies. Problems tackle by professionals- In multi-disciplinary approaches there is group of
professional or expertise of particular file conduct work in order to resolve issues or
problem which are faced by youth or young child and community (Sprague and et. al.,
2018). In respect of youth and community work, if team will adopt multi-disciplinary
approach for child development then they get the quality services through professional
counsellor, experienced teachers, quality resources and many more.
 Improve communication- The implementation of multi-disciplinary approach also help
in improving communication among the members as well as children or people. In
respect of youth and community work by implementation of multi-disciplinary
approaches team able to conduct effective communication or interaction among the child
or community (Morton, 2016). This will directly help them in developing more effective
strategies as well as plan for the development.
These are the main factors which use to identify value of multi-disciplinary approach in
the youth and community work. By these factors, Brighton Youth Centre able motivate trainees
to continue as well as complete whole training course effectively and successfully.
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TASK 4
P7. Describe a range of key issues of inequality and their impact on social cohesion.
Social cohesion is considered as willingness of members of society in order to cooperate
along with each other for survive as well as prosper. This will highly contribute to wide range of
social result or outcomes for example health and economic prosperity. It also defined as cohesive
society which work in order to ensure well being of their members, this will also help in
developing sense of belongingness and promote trust (Othman, Iskandar and Mohamed, 2016).
On the other hand, inequality is considered as disparities on the basis of distribution of certain
factors or metric such as income, colour, age, health, culture, religion and so on. There are also
several key issues which arise due to inequality and due to these types of issues trainees at
Brighton Youth Centre are leaving their course in middle, from which some major are given
below:-
 This will impact on the family structure and growth opportunities because there at many
area some peoples not get growth opportunities due to inequality in their culture and
religion.
 Inequality situation leads to development of conflict, war and instability which impact on
the working as well as effectiveness of every members of community (Key issues in
poverty and inequality, 2018).
 Inequality also impact on the development of economies as well as it also impact on the
educational activities of children.
 Due to inequality there is also impact on the income range which a person get at their job
profile.
Inequality due to different factors such as income, age, culture, colour, behaviour and
many more also impact on the social cohesion in various ways such as it will impact on the result
of activities (Roberts, 2019). Along with this, inequality in any factors also impact on the
education of children at a society that will directly lined to their minimising in work quality.
Inequality in team will also lead to conflict situation while working as a social cohesion team
which directly minimise on the workers effectiveness.
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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.
There are various key issues are faced by a person due to inequality due to any reason as
well as those issues directly or indirectly impact on development as well as well being of an
individual who go through all these. So in respect of Brighton Youth Centre, there are several
trainees who are leaving their training in the middle and that can be for the short time duration or
permanently (Ramey, Lawford and Vachon, 2017). This is so because they are going through
issues which arise due to inequality at the training school that arise due to financial dis balanced
and language difference. At Brighton Youth Centre, people belong from different culture and
income group but there at there, there are some trainers as well as trainees who do discrimination
with them due to which they feel demotivated as well as their self esteem will also get down due
to which they not feel importance of their existence. Due to all these issues they decide to leave
their training session in the middle which affect their performance, development as well as well
being at the training school (Ritchie and Ord, 2017). So it is essential for management of
Brighton Youth Centre to conduct several practices in order to avoid issues which may arise due
to the inequalities at the training centre. For this they may develop strategies as well as policies
based in equality act as well as they also develop policies according to which they strictly punish
those person who conduct misbehave to anyone.
CONCLUSION
By above discussed point it can be summarise that there are numbers of Youth work are
working around the world which help society directly as well as they also ensure that people or
children are leaving their life effectively by attaining their desire goal. There are several
legislations which are essential to adopt for all youth and community centre as through that they
ensure legality of work such as data protection Act, health and safety Act, equality Act and many
more. There are also several practices are conducted by these peoples in order to ensure
development of youth such as counsel children, interact children and adolescents, review
background of children and many more. Along with this, there are various types of youth and
community workers such as advice workers, family support workers, social workers, community
development workers and many more. There is also multidisciplinary approach which is valuable
for the youth and community workers because that will leads to providing quality facilities to the
society. Moreover, working of communities as well as social cohesion are affected by inequality
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which can be conducted on the various basis such as gender, income, educational level, culture,
language and many more. So it is essential for young and community workers to develop
effective strategies by avoiding these inequality factors.
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