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

Youth
And
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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