News & thoughts

​This blog was written by Jo Hickman Dunne, the Centre’s Research Officer.

​Bethia McNeil, CEO, reflects on the Centre’s existential crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

This blog was written by Adam Peel, Research and Learning Manager at the National Youth Agency.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund, a collaborative effort to support organisations to listen and respond to young people – and make this the norm.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund, a collaborative effort to support organisations to listen and respond to young people – and make this the norm.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund, a collaborative effort to support organisations to listen and respond to young people – and make this the norm.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund, a collaborative effort to support organisations to listen and respond to young people – and make this the norm.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund.

Learning and improvement during the COVID-19 pandemic

There’s an old joke about someone asking for directions, and being told “if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here” - while it’s not a side-splitter, it does provide a way into what we’re trying to achieve by developing a data standard for the youth sector.

Taking inspiration from the success of ‘TeacherTapp’, from tomorrow we will be using an adapted version of our existing ‘Asking Good Questions’ survey tool to ask youth practitioners to respond to one key multiple-choice question each week.

This blog was written by Mary McKaskill, Practice Development Manager. In it, she outlines the intentions behind creating a set of resources to support evaluation and learning for online youth work.

We’re pleased to announce that over the coming months, we will be producing resources to support learning, evaluation, and continuous improvement for online youth work.

We are pleased to launch the first version of a national data standard for the youth sector in the UK. This is a set of standard questions designed specifically for organisations working with and for young people.

We’re offering online office hours on Thursday afternoons to support practitioners and youth organisations with their evaluation practice and continuous quality improvement cycles.

We want to update you on the steps that we at the Centre for Youth Impact are taking in response to COVID-19.

In this blog, Mary McKaskill our Practice Development Manager, shares her thoughts from the Centre’s recent Practice Development Day and initial reflections on the feedback that was shared with us afterwards.