Federation for Detached Youth Workers Annual Conference 2008
The booking form is now available for this years annual conference and AGM, which will take place at the Britannia Hotel in Standish, Wigan between Thursday 13th and Saturday 15th November. This year the theme will be 'Detached youth work in a multi-agency setting - A brave new world.' If you are interested in this event please contact us at: fdyw@nya.org.uk Download the booking form HERE
Paypal link now available for purchasing goods from the Fed
You can now use paypal to purchase items from the Federation for detached youth workers. See the Publications section for details.
Upcoming projects
We are looking at running two one day events this year. One focussing on 'Violence and surveillance', which we hope to run in June and a training session on 'Managing Detached Youth Work' scheduled for September. If you are interested email us at: fdyw@nya.org.uk and we will keep you up to date.
Detached Youth Work in a Changing World - South East Conference June 28th 2008
Hampshire County Council Youth Services Children's Services Department in partnership with SERTN and the Federation for Detached Youth Work invite you to attend the 'Detached Youth Work in a Changing World' conference.
We are very pleased to have guest speaker: Graeme Tiffany, Vice Chair of the Federation for Detached Youth Work and author of Reconnecting Detached Youth Work as our key note speaker.
This is an all day conference and will include a number of workshops, you will have the opportunity to attend two from the following topics:
Starting up and
setting out.
Working in positive partnerships.
Using your
toolkit to gain recorded outcomes.
Diversity and
Inclusion.
Managing Detached Youth Work.
Tackling Gun and Knife Crime issues.
Reconnecting
Detached Youth Work.
Date: Saturday 28 June 2008
Location: Hampshire, venue to be confirmed
Cost: £40 per delegate
Further information and a booking form will
be circulated in the spring but if you have any questions regarding the event
please do not hesitate to contact Judith Whaton
(Email:judith.wharton@hants.gov.uk Tel: 02380 684932) or Claire Crawte
(Email:claire.crawte@hants.gov.uk Tel: 01256
812474)
Yorkshire and Humberside detached youth
work forum
Yorkshire and Humberside are trying to ressurect
their regional detached forum. They hope to meet up in early
February.
If you are interested contact: Vivien Stephens, Detached
Youth Work Co-ordinator East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Tel 01482 862741 Fax
01482 863787 Mob 07948584412 or email:
Federation for detached youth workers
publications
Two new publications are now available from the
Federation for Detached Youth Workers. Cick
here for
more information or here
for an order form
The federation for detached youth workers held its annual conference in Wigan this November. The conference discussed the subject of citizenship and what this means for detached youth workers. Find Tony Taylor's review of the event here . Tony writes regularly on the Critical Chatters website if you would like to know more follow the link.