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Federation for Detached Youth Work
Annual Conference
and AGM

Britannia Hotel,
Standish, 
Wigan
13th Nov 2009 until

15th Nov 2009.

POSITIVE ABOUT THE STREET?

The street, and people’s behaviour within it, has always been the subject of controversy, but surely never more so than now.

 For some, a place of ‘anti-social behaviour’ and crime, a place to be feared. For others, a playground, a place of freedom, creativity, culture and commerce, even a home. Yet others use it as a meeting place, a site for discussion and protest. How should these activities be valued?

 The Dispersal Order, the curfew, surveillance, tends one way: the street is safer when ‘cleansed’. At best, only ‘Positive’ Activities can be sanctioned within it. Young people ask: “when you tell me to move on, where do you mean to?” For many,  ‘Community Safety’ means “keeping the community safe from young people.” Presence, it seems, is the problem.

 Others counter: a vibrant, populated street, where people accept a generalised responsibility for the socialisation of each other, is safer, better, a place of real ‘community’.

One thing is undeniable, the street is a social space; and, implicitly then, a moral, ethical and political space; perhaps even a democratic space. As detached youth workers, the street is our place of work; how should we work within it? Let us examine it, think and talk about it, and try to conclude.

Speakers include; 

Tom Wylie– ex-Chief Executive of the National Youth Agency. ‘ 

Tony Jeffs- Editorial group member of Youth and Policy and University lecturer. 
Learning from history– finding positive messages from our past.’
 

Graeme Tiffany– Author of Reconnecting Detached Youth Work,, amongst others. 
The Politics of the Street: Implications for detached and outreach work with 
young people in public spaces.’
 

Sabina Frediani– Campaign Director for Liberty. ‘Liberty’s campaign work with young 
people around curfews, dispersal zones, mosquito devices etc.’
 

Karl and Sophy Hallam– founding directors of Cadence Works. ‘Hoodie, Goodie, Buddy project. 

Jason Wood– Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University/author of Work with Young People: Theory and Policy for Practice. ‘The Problem of ‘Community’ for young people’s Citizenship Formation.’ 

Graeme Neal– Children’s Service Manager– Barnardos. ‘Barnardo’s Blackpool Play Project.’

 

£350 per person

(Including all food and accommodation)

Or £85 per day

Plus a fantastic Saturday evening’s entertainment 
including ‘The Magician’-Rob 
Chapman, guitarist Paul Newman, and a
 street-dance display from Freelance Dance Team.

Workshops include;- 

Vanessa Rogers– Nationally acclaimed youth work consultant.

Positive Activities– team games and group work ideas to use on the streets.’

And ‘Positive Relationships– street based activities to explore sex, lies and love.’ Vanessa will be providing resources to take away with you. 

Jason Wood-Senior Lecturer De-Montfort University.

Education for Effective Citizenship-Using the Street.’ 

Graeme Tiffany-Freelance researcher, trainer, lecturer, and education specialist. ‘The Politics of the Street: Implications for detached and outreach work with young people in public spaces.’ 

Sacha Kaufman-Project Co-ordinator, Camden Detached Project. ‘Opportunity for creative programming for the streets, leading to recorded and accredited outcomes.’ 

Michael Whelan– PhD researcher. Exploring the links between young people’s public space experiences’ and violence using the tool of social mapping.’ 

Richard Stowe-Senior Lecturer at LJMU. ‘Interpretations of arcadia: Its relevance to contested spaces in neighbourhoods.’ 

Paul Crawte-Service Youth Work Manager for unitary authority. ’Using simple circus skills to explore the informal learning available in a street based setting.’ 

Holger Hohner Mertmann– Manager of Pluto Community Centre, Wanne, Herne, Germany. ’The Street is the Safest Place-insight into youth work in City of Herne, Germany.’ 

Bill Cox– President of FDYW. ‘A View from the Streets’. This year with the opportunity to later present and share with the whole conference examples of good practice from within your projects.

 

For further information and booking details, please contact;

fdyw@nya.org.uk

www.detachedyouthwork.info

www.detached.youthworkonline.org.uk

NB. This programme could be subject to change
 
 
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