Youth and Community Work: Supporting Individuals Report - Oxfam

This report delves into the realm of youth and community work, exploring key legislation, such as the Human Rights Act and Equality Act, and their relevance to supporting young people and children. It examines the role of youth and community workers in enabling young people's development, emphasizing the importance of confidentiality, community engagement, and promoting physical health. The report analyzes a local community initiative, specifically Oxfam, highlighting its strategies for providing services and support to vulnerable individuals, including educational programs, financial aid, and interpersonal skill-building. It also outlines the responsibilities of different youth and community workers within these initiatives, such as encouraging young people's opinions and providing alternative solutions. Furthermore, the report addresses the responsibilities of youth workers in multidisciplinary teams and analyzes the impact of inequality on social cohesion and the development of young individuals, emphasizing the importance of addressing these issues to foster positive outcomes.

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

as education, fulfil their basic needs and support them financially. Some of the key
responsibilities of youth workers are discussed here.
Developing confidentiality: It is important for youth and community workers to
maintain confidentiality of individuals personal information while providing them services.
Social workers should not promises bout any kind of absolute confidentiality if there are any
chances of disclosure (Slovenko and Thompson, 2016). It must be made clear to the young
individual if there are chances for any leakage. Oxfam maintain the confidentiality of their
targeted population and give them trust about disclosure.
Engaging young people in the community: It is important for a youth worker to
develop some strategies for engaging young people in a society. Social workers in Oxfam,
engage young people in several activities and help them to claim about their rights regarding
health and education. It is the responsibility of the youth workers to encourage young people an
children for expressing their thoughts and opinions in a society. There must be flexible hours of
the program develop by communities so that large portion of youngsters could participate in it.
They should provide a trusted support.
Promoting physical health: Youth workers and social workers in a community should
promote physical health among young people and children. They should educate about health
benefits of physical activities (Paceley, 2016). Such communities can conduct some events and
activities related to physical health by involving some trainers who run the program and provide
necessary equipments to the young people for performing such activities in efficient way. Oxfam
which is a healthcare organisation provide free health screening and education services as it play
a vital role in reducing poverty among young people in a society. Several health and wellness
programs are conducted in a society with the help of youth workers for maintaining health
conditions of young people and children.

TASK 2
P3 Describe how a local community initiative utilises youth and community work to enable
positive outcomes for young people.
By the help of skills, talent and creativity young individuals of the society contribute in
developing countries by making necessary social change and economical status of country.
Somehow, they are lag behind in a society because they are not well educated and they are not
financially stable. Local community initiatives are the network of individuals and some
organisations who are involved in developing health and welfare of a community (Robinson and
et. al., 2017). Oxfam is a local community which is involved in alleviation of global poverty and
it is a non profitable organisation. Youth and community work is involved in providing services
to the young people in a society who has been discriminated and isolated due to their low
financial condition and lack of education. Local communities build a number of strategies for
providing services to the individuals in a society. They utilizes some of the youth and community
work for more better outcomes. They are involved in:
 Build a strong community of trainers and educators for the young people and children so
that they can get education at their level and learn how to gain a better position in a
society. They educate them about their basic fundamental rights and help them to raise
their voice by fighting for their needs. Such educational programs must be free of cost so
that individual can participate actively without any hurdles of financial issues.
 Engaging young individuals in number of activities for the welfare of society and for
their own overall human development. They can involve young people in identifying
priorities, in some project designs and engage them in social activities so that they can
interact with other individuals in a society.
 Provide them funds so that they could fulfil their basic needs and can can stand for
themselves in a society (Coburn and Gormally, 2017). Supporting them financially is a
major step towards reducing poverty in such young population as it will be worth
investing because young individuals are the future of country.
 Oxfam international is a local community which utilizes young and community work and
provide services such as food, cloths and natural resource to the individuals so that they
can survive in a society. They provide their services without any discrimination and
promote equality and human rights.

 They help young people to build interpersonal skills and gain self confidence and self
esteem. They can engage them in a group and some community so that they could be able
to see themselves individually (Zeedyk, Tipton and Blacher, 2016).
 It will help them to be involved in some kind of illegal and unsafe activities as being
educated can help them to analyse what is right and what is harmful for them. It will help
them to be engage in activities like smoking, alcohol and other unhealthy stuffs that can
decline their overall health status.
Thus, such kind of initiatives will help local communities to contribute in the
development of young individuals in a society.
P4 Explain the responsibilities of different youth and community workers within the initiative
identified
In context of youth community workers, they have various responsibilities within the
initiative identified which are required to be fulfilled in proper manner. It is necessary for
employees of Oxfam to focus on their responsibilities with the community initiative which
facilitate to gain better outcomes of their efforts. However, it is significant for youth and
community workers to fulfil desired responsibilities for providing proper support to needy
children as well as young people. Thus, some of duties are given here.
Encourage youngsters to express their opinions: This can be described as a
responsibility of community workers to motivate individual to share their actual problems and
thoughts to them. It is favourable to identify actual societal threats and problems which are
required to be solved for making life of youngsters stable. Oxfam staff can encourage young
people to express their views through which they can gain better facilities to gain desired
education and employment.
Provide alternatives to young groups: In context of Oxfam, it is necessary for them to
establish strategies and alternative ways that can be used by young people to solve their
problems related to eduction, employment and healthcare facilities. Meanwhile, it is favourable
for them to enhance skills and capabilities of such individuals so that they can gain desired
services in society for making their lives better.
Trusted support: This includes the criterion of working through which community
workers are required develop such an environment so that young individuals can easily trust
them to gain help regarding education or employment. It is necessary for them to create a trust

factor among them which is suitable to support more effectively. In case of Oxfam, staff is
required to provide trusted support which facilitate to involve more youngsters in regards to
achieve better outcomes.
TASK 3
P5 Describe the responsibilities of youth and community workers when working in
multidisciplinary teams
The youth and community workers help the uncivilized people and community which
includes young people and children. They support the young people and children by providing
them education, employment so that the people can lift out themselves from poverty (Frimpong‐
Manso, 2017). From the given organisation Oxfam, they work for disable people who are unable
to gain education and other requirements of life due to their poverty. So in order to lift up them,
the youth and community workers of this organisation work in multi-disciplinary team. The
responsibilities of youth and community workers in team are described by many ways and they
are below.
 Open communication:- The youth members should communicate with other members of
team. Their communication should be open and honest about their research or
experiences. They try to communicate freely with the other member so that they can
share the case of each and every service users (Nayak, 2016). In order to achieve goals,
the youth workers should respect the other members of multi-disciplinary team. The
workers should listen the other team members carefully. They must considered opinion of
others in order to achieve the goal of the organisation and also they should respect of
others opinion.
 Maintain the confidentially:- The workers must trust the multi-disciplinary team
members to keep the records confidentially. Their responsibilities is to keep the
commitment towards the team so that the aim of organisation can reach and services can
provided to users. Their responsibilities includes maintain the records about the number
of young people and children. The records should be effectively expressing the
description of each and every patients. The workers need to keep the records on a
confidentially place so that no records can be disclose.

 Promote health:- The workers need to share the information regarding there research
and treatment to the each and every individual in their team. The youth workers need to
promote the health with the the help of multi-disciplinary team (Liang and et. al., 2017).
The responsibilities of workers is to take charges and mistakes equally if any error
occurred during their treatment.
The responsibilities of the given organisation is to uplift the young people and children
from their poverty. So the responsibilities of youth and communities workers is to maintain the
goal with the multi-disciplinary team. There responsibilities is to maintain the policies of
organisation in order to provide proper facilities to the users. The responsibilities of organisation
includes in the organisation to analyse and make records of the service users and to provide them
to the respective professionals so that the service users can attain the services on time.
P6 Explain the value of a multidisciplinary approach to youth and community work
The multi-disciplinary team refers to the group of health care workers which includes
professionals from different background. There are different approaches of multi-disciplinary
team which includes to increased the satisfaction for clients and to improve the health outcomes.
The benefit of multidisciplinary team approach to youth and community work are described
below.
 With the approaches which is adapted by multi-disciplinary team members help the youth
and community workers to work efficiently.
 In the Oxfam organisation, the approach of sharing information with the workers occur.
The youth and community workers can receive the appropriate information from the
professionals so that they can provide a proper care to the service users (Kingston,
Mihalic and Sigel, 2016). The value of this approach is effective as it motivates the
workers to promote the health and services. The sharing information regarding patient
history, treatment, list of service providers can also a beneficial value of the team in
respect to the workers. With this approach the workers can communicate freely and in
open way so that there way of thinking can expand.
 The approach of multidisciplinary team is necessary to build the enthusiasm in workers
so that they can work properly. The benefit of their approach is to maintain the discipline
among workers to act toward common purposes.

 The multi-disciplinary team members use the approaches so that the workers can provide
services to enhance satisfaction of clients.
 The value of approaches is to make the efficient use of resources by workers so that they
can provide better resources to the young people and children to uplift from poverty.
Their approaches includes the satisfaction of youth workers and the value of this is to
increase the motivation towards work (Hanif and et. al., 2017).
 By making flexible time hours, maintaining the work management of youth workers can
also enhance them to work effectively. The multidisciplinary team approaches includes
such activities from that the youth and community workers feel motivated and know the
work of their description.
 The benefit of this approach is that by communicating with the youth workers can build
the trust and confidence in the workers so that they can consider their work and value of
each and every person. The value of this approach is to build the relationship between the
multi-disciplinary team and youth ad community workers.
 There are lot of approaches which build the satisfaction and trust of youth and
community workers and they are valued in various form of aspects. The value of
approaches is benefited because the relation between the multi-disciplinary team and
youth & community workers directly affected to the service users.
 These approaches are necessary to build in a team work as it is empowered the
organisation value and as well as enhance the health of users (Scheef, Barrio and Poppen,
2017).
TASK 4
P7 Describe a range of key issues of inequality and their impact on social cohesion
Youth and community work, assist young people in Oxfam. It consider the running
youth, clubs, drop in services, drama classes, sports clubs etc. just need to learn good business
skills as they will be deal with applying for grants and budgets. They acquire their, knowledge,
education, social and personal development.
Social inequality is determined by the subsistence of unequal rewards and opportunities
for various social positions or status in a community or society. It is the situation which mention
to the uneven arrangement of income, wealth, unemployment, material goods. It remark

atypically inside the state inequality on individual or group level for example between gender,
rural or urban population, race etc. There are some key problems regarding Oxfam are as
follows-
Economic Inequality, it is also called income and wealth difference, found in different
measures of economical welfare with persons in group or unit in a population, within countries.
Some causes are Personal factors, gender does matter, wages determines by labour market,
eduction affects wages, growth in technology widens income gap (Sawyer, Thoroughgood and
Webster, 2016).
It effect on the society on the large level, Oxfam consider as raised rates of violence, crime,
impeded productivity or impaired functioning of representative democracy. Reducing income
inequality offers the prospect of greater social cohesiveness and better population oh health.
Pay Inequality
An individual pay is contrary to their income. It mention to payment from employment
and workers only. This can be an monthly, hourly, yearly basis, its typically paid monthly
weekly and also consider bonuses. Pay inequalities consequently describes the difference
between person pay in the Oxfam charity.
According to Oxfam a large gap between poor and rich people vantage to higher fatality
rate through with crack-up of social coherence. The modern flowing in financial gain inequality
in many nation has been attended by a starred improvement in the act compactness of poorness.
This effect on society at huge like accumulated pace of violence and crime, impeded economic
growth and productivity (Kuipers and et. al., 2016). Reduction of this, it turned the chance of
greater social cohesiveness and better grouping and population health.
Inequality in Education, All the students have accession to the identical point and the
same possibilities are make over to spend equal effect in education. Difference in schools in a
particular groups either race, gender, ethnicity etc. not given the same resources and possibility
as other units, and they don't given a chance to getting the same results as other groups. This
issue is global.
Effect of inequality in education on social cohesion through education has re emerged as
an crucial policy objective in many states. But the Oxfam organisation has developed a policies
for the children's and provide supports by cohesiveness. It also impact on their future
achievement, earnings, health status, political participation. Social expression is the capability of

a social grouping to assure the wellness of all its minimizing maternity and confront hard-
scrabble and marginalization.
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
Inequality not only erodes their corporate attempt to achieve economic growth, trim
down poverty and increase social mobility. It also raises opinion tension and all excessively
frequently fuels conflict and unstableness (Watt, 2017). Without any consideration of some other
uncertain such as ethnicity or income. For example is to measure of the well-being evaluation on
the top of well-upbeat dispersion.
In Oxfam, they organise inequalities between population units is the deviation in ordinary
well-being heaps between accumulation of people. Lower income units always have lower well-
being but higher income groups and ethnic-al minorities attend ton have let down well-welfare.
There is a need for social agents who could develop programs for the help of those people
who is suffering from inequality. Oxfam Plan Policies to better understand the role youth in
community development process.
Some factors influence youth participation in the community spend a significant amount
of time in activities extracurricular to school, considering involvement in Oxfam organisation.
Move with people inside them. Most experts that time of life inhabit a important role in
contemporary human improvement for contrary interconnected reasons (Naidoo and et. al.,
2018). In equality one people delicacy with children and students in school and colleges in a bad
manner. By this, students suffer from some mental issues like depression, stress, etc. So they
need support and care by social worker and care practitioners to overcome inequalities.
In some states girls are more liable to die in childbirth than they to finishing school, or an
approximation one in three girls are married earlier the age of eighteen this is also a large content
in equivalence. Social workers assist them by some policies they provide them shelter and fulfil
needs according to their demands.
Economic inequality effects accession to education, health and some other employment
for youth. Poorness act with economical inequality to evolve device of disadvantage which push
the poorest most to the lowermost and keep them there. The social worker provide free
educational employment and public health are strong weapon system in fight against economic
inequality (Bowler, 2017). Care practitioners play a critical role in Oxfam, authorise the girls