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Child and Youth Care (CYC) is a profession which focuses on the developmental needs of children and families within the space and time of their daily lives. [1] Child and Youth Care is primarily a way of working with others and practitioners can be found in a variety of roles including direct care, private practice, educator, trainer, writer, supervisor, manager, researcher, and more.
A Youth worker is a person that works with young people to facilitate their personal, social and educational development through informal education, care (e.g. preventive) or leisure approaches. [1] All types of educative approaches are not ethical for youth work, examples for unethical forms of education are indoctrinating, inculcating, and ...
The New York School of Philanthropy was the first higher education program to train people who wanted to work in the field of charity, including child development and youth work, in the United States. It was established with a six-week summer program in 1898, and expanded to a full-year program in 1904. [11] 1899 John Dewey
Today (as outlined in the Transforming Youth Work document released in 1998 by the DfES) it is the statutory duty of all local government organisations to provide a youth service in their region. Also for the first time the youth service has national targets that have to be met with regard to the reach (initial contact) with young people, the ...
Youth organizations including the YMCA, Boy Scouts, and 4-H set the early standard for youth work. Many believe they were simply following the principles of organizations in the United Kingdom. [1] Since that time a plethora of groups have become active, leading advocacy, research, and education about community youth work around the world.
The researchers suggest that young carers would benefit from improved support for the people they care for (such as more support from a care worker), support from services that takes account of the whole family, and their strengths and needs, clear and accessible information about support services, and help in accessing and trying them out.
For example, 16-year-old workers accounted for almost 20% of the young worker fatalities in the construction sector between 1998 and 2002, even though workers 16 and younger are legally unauthorized to enter a construction site; [10] if they do work for the construction industry, they can only work in an office or sales department. [10]
Situations in which a duty of care have previously been held to exist include doctor and patient, manufacturer and consumer, [2] and surveyor and mortgagor. [3] Accordingly, if there is an analogous case on duty of care, the court will simply apply that case to the facts of the new case without asking itself any normative questions. [4]