Open Access Youth Work – exploring the current context and evidence

 Workshop Aims 

• To explore the current evidence in universal and/or open access youth work 
• To engage practitioners on the gaps in this evidence and where future research or activities could be focused 

Speakers

1. Practice sharing on the work underway at the Centre for Youth Impact, Ed Anderton, Director of Practice Development, Centre for Youth Impact.
2. Evidencing youth work’s long-term impact: initial ideas and issues to consider. Tania de St Croix – Lecturer in the Sociology of Youth and Childhood, Kings College. 
3. Reflections from evaluating youth programmes: tentative findings for practice, learning and theory. Dr Kalbir Shukra Senior Lecturer Goldsmiths University.
4. Two local studies of universal youth work research in Scotland using a transformative evaluation methodology. Dr Amy Calder, senior policy and research officer at YouthLink Scotland, the national agency for youth work in Scotland.