As you may be aware the powers that be are proposing removing Spiritual Development from the new National Occupational Standards for Youth Work and including the notion in a new standard ‘Values and Beliefs’. <\/p>\n
Given Frontier Youth Trust’s long-standing interest in this subject matter our staff team and Directors met this week and issued the following statement:<\/p>\n
‘We consider that the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work should retain ‘Spiritual Development’ as a stand alone Youth Work Standard in order to best serve: young people, youth workers, employers and maintain a holistic and inclusive approach to human development. The proposed ‘Values and Beliefs’ Standard does not achieve these objectives and runs the risk of not being fit for purpose.’<\/p>\n
FYT are happy to share this with you in case you felt able to use it (or something similar) and\/or pass onto other colleagues and\/or post on your blogs, web sites and facebook\/twitter communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As you may be aware the powers that be are proposing removing Spiritual Development from the new National Occupational Standards for Youth Work and including the notion in a new standard ‘Values and Beliefs’. Given Frontier Youth Trust’s long-standing interest … Continue reading