Welcome to Youth Work Tools. This site is intended to help youth work staff and managers to meet the challenges of modernising their services. The site and its tools are designed to meet national standards and to aid youth services in meeting OFSTED requirements.

Much of the site is built around a common curriculum that can be shared by all involved. This common curriculum is already in use by five different services in the North East & Midlands and has been well received where inspections have taken place. To see the curriculum click on the menu tab above or email nicpearse@yahoo.co.uk for copy.

You are currently at our (inn-ovation partners) website.

Youthworktools enables us to create an endless amount of local youth services websites using pre-designed templates. In turn, each local youth service (or other managing body) can create similar template driven websites for each of their local organisations. These websites provide a comprehensive marketing and communications tool for meeting the needs of staff, users and the wider public. They also provide an archive of professional practice in the event of inspection.

All of these websites can be regularly and easily updated by the staff themselves. All that is required is an internet connected PC. If you can use a word processor and email, you can use youthworktools!

Each organisation also has access to our toolbox through their own website. The following tools are accessible from there.

•  An Annual Plan wizard: This is a series of templates that enable you to create a simple annual plan for your organisation.
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   A Daily Diary Tool: This enables you to record details of all your curriculum activity.
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   The Curriculum Bank: Here you can access and utilise curriculum session plans donated by youth work staff from all of the participating services within the scheme.
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   Your reports: Our tools prepare a series of invaluable reports allowing you to see your performance against the objectives chosen by yourself.
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   Quality Assessment: Here you can assess your organisation against the current youth work standards.

All of the above information is also assembled into a series of reports for the managing body, so that it in turn can see an overall picture of how it is performing against its targets and objectives. Further, every curriculum session planned by organisations in the same service is collated to provide the public with access to (a constantly) current programme. All of this is generated automatically and does not require administrative support.

INTERESTED? Then contact us (see tab below right)! Want to try our demo? Then, click on the membership tab above, select Sunderland Demo Authority site and follow the instructions.