Royal Society for Blind Children Access Unlimited Project
9th May 2024
Capacity Building Training, Train the Trainer, Accreditation & Funding The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) are working across Wales in partnership with the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS), The Welsh Council of the Blind, North Wales Society for the Blind, Vision Support and Boys and Girls Clubs of Wales. Access Unlimited is…
Youth Work in Wales What does it mean for young people?
2nd May 2024
A Welsh Government Update: Youth Work in Wales - What does it mean for young people? Over the last few months, Welsh Government officials have been talking with the youth work sector about its experiences and thoughts regarding the youth services and activities available for young people in Wales. This is to help develop proposals…
Mental Health Awareness Week Education Session with Ygam
2nd May 2024
With Mental Health Awareness Week (13th-19th May) quickly approaching, Ygam are continuing their work within gaming and gambling harm prevention and education. Join Sam Starsmore (Ygam's Programme Lead for Education) whilst he hosts a live session at 15:30 PM on Thursday 16th May for any professionals to attend who may work with children and young…
Volunteers Week 2024
29th April 2024
Henceforth the first Monday of June will be the beginning of Volunteers Week, this year marks the 40th Anniversary of the celebratory week as well! Today we’d like to share some resources for this year’s Volunteers Week with you; https://volunteersweek.org/ The majority of the assets are available bilingually, which is amazing; https://volunteersweek.org/get-involved/resources/ This includes…
‘Empower Hour’ Sessions – Strengthening the legislative basis for youth work in Wales
22nd April 2024
Strengthening the legislative basis for Youth Work in Wales Join the Welsh Government's Youth Engagement Team for the next phase of the ‘Empower Hour’ engagement sessions. A series of ‘Empower Hour’ online sessions were held in December 2023 and January 2024 to engage with the sector on some key themes relating to strengthening the legislative…
Welsh Government Youth Work Bulletin
19th April 2024
The latest Welsh Government Youth Work Bulletin is now live on the website. You can view it here: Youth Work Bulletin: Now Available! (govdelivery.com) For previous issues of the Bulletin please see this page: Youth work newsletters | GOV.WALES If you would like to receive future issues directly you can subscribe here: Subscribe to the…
Support the Urdd’s Peace Message Campaign
18th April 2024
Urdd Peace and Goodwill Message Every year since 1922, the young people of Wales have shared a message of peace to their peers around the world. To this day, this is the only message of its kind in the world. It’s a valuable tradition that empowers the youth of Wales to create and inspire humanitarian…
Estyn Youth Work Peer Inspectors
18th April 2024
Estyn are recruiting for peer inspectors to work on their youth inspections. Applications are welcomed from individual applicants who; Have at least 3 years of experience in a youth work organisation or in the field of youth work; Have paid or unpaid (volunteer) experience in their youth work role, full or part time; Have experience…
Free training for the Youth Sector in Wales
12th April 2024
Darryl White (Workforce Development Officer for the whole youth sector, based at WLGA), has made an arrangement with Brook to deliver this CPD: Brook Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool (RSE) to the sector. This course will be delivered to 44 staff within the sector, ideally 22 Local Authority staff and 22 from the Voluntary Youth…
Webinar – Developing highly skilled Youth Workers for the young people of Wales
11th April 2024
Developing highly skilled Youth Workers for the young people of Wales 15 April 2023, 1-3pm This webinar is presented by the Workforce Development Implementation Participation Group, one of five groups established to support the work of the Youth Work Strategy Implementation Board. As part of the ongoing work to consider, develop and implement the recommendations…
Apply to be an Associate – National Academy for Educational Leadership
11th April 2024
Become an Associate – Applications Open The National Academy for Education Leadership is committed to ensuring that Wales is a great place to be an educational leader and that, through high quality leadership across the educational system, we deliver our nations bold ambition for learners. We are looking for senior leaders from across Wales…
ERYICA Webinar for European Youth Information Day 2024 #EYID24
5th April 2024
The European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA) is keen on high-quality youth-friendly info, and every year they promote and celebrate this aim through European Youth Information Day (EYID), which takes place on April 17th . This year’s theme is Democracy, if any of you CWVYS members are working on or thinking ahead to the…