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After an interesting discussion yesterday with the Duke of Edinburghs' Awards (DofE) staff from the South East Region about using social media I mulled over some of our discussion. Some of the int...
I went to a great AGM last night at Cobnor Activity Centre. The Youth Service works in partnerhsip with the Trust to develop and deliver Outdoor Education programmes for young people at the centre.
I've been thinking about Youth Leadership recently due to the work I'm involved in with Targeted Youth Support, especially the Inspire India programme. [caption id="attachment_597" align="alignri...
We had our review for holding the License to be an Operating Authority for the Duke Of Edinburghs Award today and it came out with flying colours - which was great news. Our areas for development w...
[caption id="attachment_589" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Finished Sanitation Uit"][/caption] Last night I met with the Inspire India Staff Team to review the programme to date. It was a...
[caption id="attachment_582" align="alignleft" width="222" caption="Courtesy of Jurvetson"][/caption] Phew! What a busy summer! I'm now back after a quick holiday refreshed and ready to move forwa...
This summer I really think that we've started to integrate digital media into our work across the Youth Service and spread the message of what we do wider. For example, one of the by unintended by ...
It's summer time and we're very busy here at the moment. The group flying out to India left in high spirits yesterday and already their Blog is getting a lot of hits. We're looking forward to start...
This is an area I've been pondering on recently. This is particularly due to the work I'm involved in with Targeted Youth Support and especially the Inspire India programme. Having been involved w...
We're in the final run up to the overseas part of the Inspire India Programme. I talked about this Targeted Youth Support programme more fully back in February in this post. Last Monday I went up t...
It's Sunday afternoon and I've just been to Worth Abbey to the West Sussex Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award presentation. Even though it's Sunday afternoon, Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Wimbled...
It's Sunday afternoon and I've just been to Worth Abbey to the West Sussex Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award presentation. Even though it's Sunday afternoon, Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Wimbled...
It's Sunday afternoon and I've just been to Worth Abbey to the West Sussex Duke of Edinburghs' Award presentation. Even though it's Sunday afternoon, Goodwood Festival od Speed and Wimbleon mens fi...
I was in London yesterday at the Stonewall Education for All conference. I hadn't realised that it's the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots from which the organisation takes it's name. Stonewa...
[caption id="attachment_502" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Courtesy of Tama Leaver"][/caption] Wow! At last our Chinese partners, the Shandong Youth Federation, have confirmed that they w...
Driving hectically round the county mulling over how diverse my job is I thought I'd give you a bit of a taste of what I'm up to in the lead up to the summer holidays. I started off in the office ...
[caption id="attachment_479" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Courtesy of Raleigh"][/caption] One of our current challenges for the Inspire India Programme is how we keep computers and digit...
Today I've been driving hectically round the county mulling yet again over how diverse my job is. I started off in the office dealing with emails, responding to some press comments, sorting out sta...
For those of you that haven't yet picked it up or read it on the Youth Work online ning there will be an unconference this year on 11th July. You can find out more about the Connected Generation: 2...
[caption id="attachment_456" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Courtesy of Wonderlane"][/caption] Yep, it's almost the summer and here I am Snowed Under! Not literally of course! Although the...
I was busy catching up with colleagues yesterday having just returned from my holidays and had a few interesting discussions. I have a remit for developing and supporting mechanisms for accrediting...
I picked this up from Prophetik Soul’s Blog [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4&rel=0] I hadn't seen it before and it made me laugh and also reflect on its implications for my...
The LGBTU strategy working group met recently and we've definately started to move forward. I have been working with two other colleagues to draw together the threads of the strategy and we're almo...
The remit for developping Targeted Youth Support seems to be growing daily. I've now started to link and develop our work for Young Carers
[caption id="attachment_424" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Thanks to 10ch"][/caption] I find it interesting to see how, when discussing social media with others, the almost immediate des...
Last Saturday evening I went to the first Young Peoples' celebration event for those young people involved with West Sussex Youth Service in Worthing. It was a great evening with over 100 young peo...
This job soooo varied! I'm amazed at the breadth of areas we cover at times. It was only in discussion with a colleague that I realised that it isn't that my time managment has taken a dive but rat...
Today I've been involved in running a workshop for part time youth support workers around Recorded Outcomes
I was having a wander around the internet and checking on my Google Reader feeds this morning (gosh, I am getting technical with my speak!) when I came across this post from Vicki Davis on the Cool...
We have just had our youth service conference and it dawned on me that a year ago at the 2008 conference I was so inspired by DKs presentation from Mediasnackers that I decided to start blogging......
We've got our next working group meeting on Friday and having had a lot of input concerning equalities during our recent Staff Conference I'm looking forward to seeing how we've progressed from the...
We've got our next working group meeting on Friday and having had a lot of input concerning equalities during our recent Staff Conference I'm looking forward to seeing how we've progressed from the...
We have just had our youth service conference and it dawned on me that a year ago I was so inspired by DKs presentation that I decided to start blogging.....and what an adventure that's been.
[caption id="attachment_379" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Courtesy of Milica Sekulic"][/caption] One of my key learning points from the weekend that we have just run is the impact that m...
[caption id="attachment_367" align="alignleft" width="162" caption="Courtesy Lepiaf geo"][/caption] It's not even the weekend and I'm shattered already! It's been a busy week with lots of variety ...
I've finally got the chance to write about the amazing residential weekend we had a couple of weekends ago. As I mentioned in a recent post, we're putting together a targeted youth support programm...
[caption id="attachment_358" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Courtesy of Phillie Casablanca"][/caption] I had a meeting with our new DofE, Accreditation and Outdoor Education Manager today ...
I've finally got the chance to write about the amazing reidentail weekend we had a couple of weekends ago. As I mentioned in my latest blog, we're putting together a targeted youth support programm...
Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while will have guessed by now that I am passionate about young peoples development through using International experiences. [youtube=http://www.yo...
With wind, rain and snow taking up most of last week it was with some trepidation that I could be seen heading out last Saturday night to hep out on the Charlton Chase. This is an all night navig...
the 320 young people, that were given the opportunity to participate in the Charlton Chase because of your help. We had nearly 100 staff supporting the event at Seaford, and out in the field. Of ...
A colleague and myself found ourselves in rural Wiltshire the week before last thanks to David Whelwell. I've conversed with David online both here and also through other online forums. He followed...
A colleague and myself found ourselves in rural Wiltshire last week thanks to David Whelwell. I've conversed with David online both here and also through other online forums. He followed our China ...
It's been a hectic couple of weeks with more to follow! The weekend before last I was part of the staff team who met up again with the young people who went on the China Exchange visit last October...
Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while will have guessed by now that I am passionate about young peoples develoment through using INternational experiences. To this end I have been ...
Hurray! On Tuesday we finally held our first learning and working group meeting to develop the Social Media Strategy for West Sussex Youth Service. For newcomers I've previously written about this ...
Hurray! At last today we held our first learning and working group meeting to develop our Social Media Strategy for the Youth Service. It was great to be meeting up again so long after our training...
New year - new theme? i thought it was possibly time to change the look of the site so I am currently having a play with some different themes to see which one I think suits the site best. This on...
Happy 2009! I hope that you had a good break and enjoyed whatever festivities you took part in. Here's to a great 2009 with lots of new and exciting adventures in youth work! Following on from my ...
I had a really successful meeeting before Christmas (for me success was measured in the short time it took, the participation of members, and the amount of work done!) concerning the development of...
[caption align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Courtesy of Gaetan Lee"][/caption] Part of why life has been so busy recently has been the sudden upsurge in the number of vacancies and having to g...
Part of why life has been so busy recently has been the sudden upsurge in the number of vacancies and having to get to grips, yet again, with a recuriment system that has changed.
[caption align="alignright" width="144" caption="Courtesy of lepiaf.geo"][/caption] The last few weeks have felt like a headlong rush towards Christmas with lots and lots to do before we get there...
We face a number of issues in enabling young people to get on line and use social media within everyday practice at youth centres which we will need to consider when we develop our strategy. 1. Ha...
As I was driving in to work today I was listening to the Today programme on Radio Four where there was a discussion about how the public condemn all children and young people. The discussion was ce...
Well, I've more or less had the final blogs through from China and thought I'd just share my initial thoughts about how we've used this tool so far for this experience. We will be ongoing with the ...
...is proving interesting! It appears that our Wordpress site is blocked so our foray into blogging with young people has taken a slightly different turn with the group writing their blogs and then...
Well, the day I thought would never arrive finally has.......as I speak there are 12 young people and 3 youth work staff from West Sussex on a coach starting their adventure to China! Wow! I'm ama...
I'm hoping that I'm joining many other blogs today to talk about Poverty. In the guidance for joining Blog Action Day it suggests that bloggers keep their posts related to the subject they usual...
I thought it was time to bring us up to speed with all things Chinese! Unfortunately I've had to withdraw from the exchange (at least physically) as I've not been too well and felt that I wouldn't ...
One of the aspects of blogging that I've found so fascinating on my journey of the blogosphere has been the sense of being able to affect change and share our and thoughts across the world. I read ...
I thought it was time to bring us all up to speed with all things Chinese! Unfortunately I've had to withdraw from the exchange (at least physically) as I've not been too well and felt that I would...
I'm hoping that I'm joining many other blogs today to talk about Poverty. In the guidance for joining Blog Action Day it suggests that bloggers keep their posts related to the subject they usually ...
One of the aspects of blogging that I've found so fascinating on my journey of the blogosphere has been the sense of being able to affect change and share our and thoughts across the world. I read ...
It's the APYCO Conference - Creating Shared Space, making integration work - and there's some interesting comments and proposals on changes within the association. How do I know this? Well, in case...
In case you hadn't picked it up - the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers has now started a blog, with the support of Tim Davies
As I've detailed before I'm responsible for developing our Social Media strategy. To kick start this the social media staff group (made up of colleagues from across the service) had some training f...
As I've detailed before I'm responsible for developing our Social Media strategy. To kick start this the social media staff group (made up of colleagues from across the service) had some training f...
Sorry for the interruption in posting. I have unexpectedly been off work for the last two weeks and not in a posting frame of mind however hopefully that will now all change (although I'll no doubt...
It's great to see how much the online youth work community is talking and sharing more information since the successful UkYouthOnline unconference at the weekend. More groups have developed on the ...
From what I've picked up from the UKYouthonline Unconference there was a lot of talk about using Social Networking Sites with young people. Mike Amos Simpson made some interesting comments here abo...
Wow! I'm really disappointed that I missed the UkYouthOnline unconference on Saturday. It sounds like it was a great day with a meeting of like minded people involved in youth work, social media te...
Wow! I'm really disappointed that I missed the UkYouthOnline unconference on Saturday. It sounds like it was a great day with a meeting of like minded people involved in youth work, social media te...
[clearspring_widget title="Animoto.com" wid="46928cc51133af17" pid="48c950750504ae75" width="432" height="260" domain="widgets.clearspring.com"] Just a few sights and views of Cobnor Outdoor Activ...
Recently I've been having a look at some Social Networking Sites that colleagues have set up and came across an interesting conundrum (or at least I thought it was!). A youth provision had set up a...
[caption align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Courtesy of Jose C Silva"][/caption] Back in January Tim Davies wrote a post 7 Reasons why Youth Workers should be blogging. One of the comments fr...
After a couple of weeks of enjoying our summer weather (!!) I'll be writing again as usual in the very near future!
I've posted before about the development of Academies and thought I would give an update on how things are progressing. The youth council from the area concerned wrote to Cabinet Members, District ...
Mike Amos-Simpson has written an article, both in Children and Young People Now and also online about the development of online resources as a tool for youth work professionals as much as for young...
Wow! We've just had a great weekend at Cobnor Outdoor Actvities Centre with the group of young people heading to China. It was a pretty packed weekend with lots of laughs, and serious discussions. ...
[caption align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Map of Online Communities by D'Arcy Norman"][/caption] I've seen on a couple of blogs a round up of sites and whilst I've been doodling around ...
Ok - I've decided that I need to somehow order my China inputs so I'll just number the updates from now on. (unimaginative I know but hey...at least there'll be some sort of order!). Well, we're g...
Yep, the MediaSnackers training has persuaded Steve Humphries to start his own blog! I'm really looking forward to hearing more about Steves' experiences as he works in a part of the youth service...
Wow! What a great and informative few days we had last week. A group of 10 of us from across the county got together for 2 days of training by MediaSnackers, I'll talk a bit more about it in a mome...
Wow! My comment on Hazel Blears blog was acutally read and responded to....how's that for the power of blogging and social media! Some new Community Power Packs have been launched to support discus...
For those of you who haven't picked it up yet Hazel Blears is blogging this week here on Communities and Local Government. An interesting exercise where she is looking for information and feedback...
This week I went to the Youth Work 4 Health conference held by the National Youth Agency in Brighton. It was an interesting day with a lot of discussion about how you can use the Youth Work 4 Heal...
The other interesting item I picked up on recently was about the Disarming Britain series on Channel 4. Mike Amos Sipmson has blogged about the tv programmes here and comments on "how much respons...
..post!!!! It's been an interesting time at work as I try to juggle everything and part of that is choosing what to blog and when. As ever the job is so varied that if I don't concentrate it can al...
Since I last posted about China here all had been very quiet so I was beginning to worry about how much off the cuff we were going to end up having to work. We have almost got the group of young pe...
This time a West Sussex County Council one. The main aim of it was to look at Assessment Frameworks and see how we undertake our needs analysis when looking at families, children and young people. ...
The South East Youth Partnership (SEYP) is the similar to the Regional Youth Work Units found across the country. Rather than hold a lot of conferences the SEYP has gone for more of a seminar model...
Well, I've finally set up a SNS as a place for colleagues involved in developing the Social Media Strategy to discuss and share We've used Ning to do this and will see how it goes. It's already bee...
It's been interesting for me to discover and see how different organisations are trying to encourage and make use of different media to attract young people. I have been struck by two organisations...
We've just had a great Senior Management awayday where we've been looking at how we move towards an Integrated Youth Support and Development Service. We've had the opportunity to reflect on our cur...
Recently I've somehow come across and signed up to a social issues games list serve through Games for Change . I like the of various games that tackle social issues and wonder how we might use thes...
Well, we've finally managed to get organised and have now booked in some social media training for July. I'm really excited by this as I'm hoping that this will be the kick start to a number of pri...
....be obsessed by stats but I do find them intriguing. For example today is my most visited day.....and I wonder is this because I know that a colleague has been talking to others about this blog ...
what sites to use?!?! As I've realised that somehow I need to try and control my browsing and organise myself more effectively in this area i've been looking at different sites. This has been helpe...
....of blogging! I've been reflecting on my blogging journey so far and wondering how this is helping me, or not, in the day job. PROS 1. Information:- I have to say I'm fascinated by what I can...
Hello again - it's been a while but work has been hectic. As I've said previously I'm always amazed at how much we get up to in our jobs and how we manage to balance it all. Last week was a typical...
Well, it finally looks like the plan to initiate a youth exchange with China is likely to become a reality! As I mentioned here, after a number of youth worker exchanges we were hoping to set somet...
Last week was a week of meetings, conferences and research development and one of these was on Friday night when I went to the launch of the West Sussex Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Unsure (LG...
Hurray! Another Statutory youth work blog goes live!!! Chris and Sue are both Senior Assistant Youth Workers working for Oldham Youth Service so if you're interested in learning more about what goe...
Yesterday I was at a roadshow given by the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme for the South East Region. (If you haven't heard of the Award or want to find out what you have to do to complete it have...
A while back Mediasnackers were about to launch a campaign to inspire uk statutory youth workers to blog, little knowing that they had previously inspired me at one of their presentations. DK has ...
WoW! I can't get over how varied my job can be. Had lots of different discussions and developments today but I will just blog ones I'm pondering. One of my responsibilities is Outdoor Education. I...
I still seem to have a few problems putting images up so I have been looking at how I do it. This one is an experiment to see how the whole slide thing works and comes courtesy of Tim Davies and hi...
... the lurkers!!! Yep, I've heard that there are folk out there looking in at what I'm writing and also my stats say so too, I just don't know who! Thanks to those who have commented to date, it's...
....of creating a virtual space for all our Youth Forums to convene, discuss and interact! I probably need to explain this a bit more. With the introduction of the Youth Opportunity & Capital ...
Phew! What a mouthful!! We've been interviewing for new staff the past couple of days and it's made me think much more closely about the changes that are headed our way and also the ones that we ...
Possible Youth Work Tool, originally uploaded by West Sussex Youth Service. Following on from Tims note about cartoons I've had a go on one of the ones that someone suggested in his comments. I ca...
WOW! :) I've been away for a week (hence the quiet) and it's all been happening! Firstly welcome to Dave Petrie an Advanced Practitioner from Essex who has started his own blog. It's great to have ...
The experiment I've started with this blog seems to be going well at the moment and all the time I'm massively increasing my technological awareness . Firstly - The small discussions that this wor...
In our authority I think we have a robust system of assessing the quality of our youth work. Each term each of our units and projects should receive a youthwork inspection visit. A rota has been s...
The other evening I was out at a local youth centre to do a quality inspection. It was an interesting visit as I hadn't seen the centre since it had been built however I had been involved in at the...
I've had an interesting discussion today with regards to transparency which has led me to wonder how transparent I should be on this blog. At the moment I haven't been very specific as to where I w...
I've worked out that I need to balance my need for an artistic look and lots of widgets (at least that's what Wordpress call them , not sure if that's a generic term) with trying to add something o...
I've been thinking more about this blog and trying to work out what I should or should not include on it. It's been interesting reading Tim's Blog and his thoughts on his guiding principles and his...
It's been a hectic start to the week today. I'm always amazed at how varied the job is and the range of work that I can cover in just a day. Youth Volunteering I've finally managed to finish the...
Well, I'm just starting out on this project and hope that it's going to prove it's worth as I start to suss out and discover how all the 'new' media can be used to help support the youthwork that I...
Well, I'm just starting out on this project and hope that it's going to prove it's worth as I start to suss out and discover how all the 'new' media can be used to help support the youthwork that I...
In 2002 the government published the Transforming Youth Work - Resourcing Excellent Youth Services document which led to the implementation and formalisation of a lot of the informal qualifications...
There's been a lot of talk about using Social Networking Sites with young people and the forthcoming conferences will be looking at these. I appreciate that they incorporate some aspect of blogging...
Mike Amos-Simpson has written an article, both in Children and Young People Now and also online about the development of online resources as a tool for youth work professionals as much as for young...
Back in January Tim Davies wrote a post 7 Reasons why Youth Workers should be blogging. One of the comments from an individual studying youth work in Bristol was:- "im currently in my 2nd yr stud...
Well, I'm now well into my experiment and thought I would review how I've been getting on. It has been quite a journey. It wasn't until the MediaSnackers training that I realised just how much I'd ...
This week I went to the Youth Work 4 Health conference held by the National Youth Agency in Brighton. It was an interesting day with a lot of discussion about how you can use the Youth Work 4 Healt...
Wow! We've just had a great weekend at Cobnor Actvities Centre with the group of young people heading to China. It was a pretty packed weekend with lots of laughs, and serious discussions. We start...
It's been quite busy this week. The complexity of trying to keep up to date, go to meetings and also actually develop and deliver some work requires quite some juggling and it always feels as thoug...
I've posted before about the development of Academies and thought I would give an update on how things are progressing. The youth council from the area concerned wrote to Cabinet Members, District ...
In 2002 the government published the Transforming Youth Work - Resourcing Excellent Youth Services document which led to the implementation and formalisation of a lot of the informal qualifications...
It's been quite busy this week. The complexity of trying to keep up to date, go to meetings and also actually develop and deliver some work requires quite some juggling and it always feels as thoug...
This week I went to the Youth Work 4 Health conference held by the National Youth Agency in Brighton. It was an interesting day with a lot of discussion about how you can use the Youth Work 4 Healt...
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