The DES and Youth Work

Abstract

The basic terrain upon which DES intervention (financial and political, organisational and individual) takes place is not easy to summarise. Grant Related Expenditure Assessments (GREAs), the direct funding of some training, course endorsement via CETYCW, course assessment via HMIs and the provision of information and other services through the auspices of NYB are perhaps some of the key elements. In addition there is also grant aid to individual agencies such as the British Youth Council, to the headquarters of national voluntary organisations and the provision of funds for certain experimental and developmental projects.

There is little doubt that the Youth Service does not sit entirely comfortably inside the DES … it moves into the welfaring and policing as well as the educational traditions … and its very informality and structure on the ground make it not the easiest bedfellow with a machine that is generally about formality … schools, colleges, universities (Youth Work HMI*).