Federation for Detached Youth Work Annual Conference and AGM Trafford Hall, Cheshire 14th-16th November 2014 PROGRAMME

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1 Federation for Detached Youth Work Annual Conference and AGM Trafford Hall, Cheshire 14th-16th November 2014 PROGRAMME Friday 14 November pm Registration 2.00 pm Welcome to Conference & Icebreaker 2.15 pm Speakers: Kevin Jones - Chair, FDYW Tackling organised crime exploring the role of detached youth work Mick Hurley OBE - Director, Specialist Crime Solutions Limited Outreach and arts intervention as a tool of engagement with male sex workers Hayley Speed, Head of Health and Social Care, & Christopher Charles, Head of Creative Development, The Men's Room 3.00 pm Question Time panel 3.45 pm BREAK 4.00 pm Workshops: 1. Same Sh*t different day: Voices of male sex workers Hayley Speed & Christopher Charles 2. View from the Street Bill Cox and Ken Stenton, 3. Creating Partnerships Emily Collinsbeare 4. Precarious Lives: How does youth and community work respond? Janet Batsleer 6.30 pm DINNER 1 Programme may be subject to change

2 Saturday 15 November am BREAKFAST 9.20 am Introduction to the day 9.30 am Workshops: 1. A Practical Toolkit for New Detached Youth Workers Don Irving, Youth Work Manager/Trainer 2. Troubled families Agenda Simon Whitmore 3. Same Sh*t different day Hayley Speed & Christopher Charles, The Men's Room pm LUNCH 1.15 pm AGM & regional meetings 2.15 pm Workshops: 1. A Practical Toolkit for New Detached Youth Workers Don Irving 2. Troubled families agenda Simon Whitmore 3. Exploring The Art of Youth Work Kerry Young 4. Young people, justice, law and social action Vanessa Rogers 4.45 pm Break 5.00 pm Speakers & Questions Overview of street/detached work in Europe Edwin de Boevé, Director - Dynamo 'The Art of Youth Work' Kerry Young, Author 6.30 pm DINNER 8.00 pm Evening Entertainment 2 Programme may be subject to change

3 Sunday 16 November am 9.00 am 9.10 am am BREAKFAST Introduction to the Day Short films BREAK am Workshops: 1.View from the Street Bill Cox and Ken Stenton 2.Creating Partnerships Emily Collinsbeare 3.Targeted youth work exploring risk Vanessa Rogers 4.TBC Edwin de Boevé pm Speaker & questions Graeme Tiffany- Independent Education Consultant Working with, or doing to? Insights from Rotherham on childism, the prevention of child sexual exploitation, and work with young people more generally pm Conference Close and Evaluation 1.30 pm LUNCH AND DEPART 3 Programme may be subject to change

4 Speaker Presentations Tackling organised crime exploring the role of detached youth work Mick Hurley OBE, Specialist Crime Solutions Limited A look at current thinking in relation to tackling organised crime and an exploration of the role of detached youth work in this evolving policy area. Outreach and arts intervention as a tool of engagement with male sex workers Hayley Speed & Christopher Charles, The Men's Room A Reflection on the use of outreach and arts intervention as a tool of engagement with male sex workers. Overview of street/detached work in Europe. Edwin de Boevé, Director Dynamo Overview of street/detached work in Europe 'The Art of Youth Work' Kerry Young This presentation will focus on the core purpose, principles and values of youth work as expressed in The Art of Youth Work and ask the question as to whether the intentions, practice and skills of detached youth workers are or should be different from other kinds of youth worker Working with, or doing to? Insights from Rotherham on childism, the prevention of child sexual exploitation, and work with young people more generally Graeme Tiffany The presentation will dig down into work (both effective and ineffective) with young people exposed to child sexual exploitation, and so clearly on the fringes. It will consider what can be learnt from a deeper analysis of this issue, and offer suggestions of ways forward, not just for work with this group but all young people. Therein, there are insights, for detached youth work, youth work and work with young people more generally - which includes schooling. We might speculate then that learning from work on the fringes can have a wider resonance, and the capacity to catalyse new thinking about education per se. 4 Programme may be subject to change

5 Workshop Information: Hayley Speed & Christopher Charles Same Sh*t Different Day The Men s Room will use the voices of the men we work with. The showing of a film Same Sh*t Different Day will inform a discussion and reflection on the use of outreach and arts intervention as a tool of engagement with male sex workers who are highly marginalised and on the fringe of society. In addition the session will explore the value of delivering outreach as a co production and share some of our outcomes. Bill Cox MBE & Ken Stenton View From The Street This popular workshop allows participants the time and space to explore and share their view from the streets they are working on. This workshop will address your agenda and will explore any current issue or problem facing you in your practice, with a view to offering ideas and strategies for improvement. You may also wish to reflect upon the views of our speakers. Anything you re not sure of? Bring it along and share with other workers in a supportive environment. This is also an opportunity to share ideas and good practice. Emily Collinsbeare Successful partnerships between the public and community/voluntary sector The workshop successful partnerships between the public and community/voluntary sector will through discussion and activities explore the need for robust partnerships across the youth work (and associated) sector. Reduced funding, increased devolvement of commissioning and less traditional youth work create a perfect storm that can be navigated with strong partnerships. Janet Batsleer Precarious Lives: How does youth and community work respond? This will be a facilitated workshop drawing on participants current working contexts but also including some examples from my own current research. I want to explore the feelings associated with practice especially in relation to food and doing good. Don Irving A Practical Toolkit for New Detached Youth Workers This practically based workshop will help those new to the field to explore a range of 5 Programme may be subject to change

6 relevant issues, including: How we go about identify our target groups. Staying safe. Effective practice. How to engage with young people on the street. Being prepared Thinking about the resources we need. Participants will be encouraged in working individual reflection, small group work and some future action planning Simon Whitmore Troubled families Agenda TBC Kerry Young The Art of Youth Work This workshop will be a discussion group addressing the question: Why and in what ways might detached youth workers be better placed to deliver youth work as envisioned in The Art of Youth Work. Vanessa Rogers: Workshop 1: Young people, justice, law and social action This workshop is packed with ideas to explore personal and cultural values around loyalty, friendship, peer pressure, blame and fairness. Emphasis will be placed on finding positive ways to get young people s voices heard, outside of media-fuelled concerns about youth gangs and crime, so that they believe they can make a difference. Topics include exercising the right to peacefully protest, community campaigning and the moral, political and criminal aspects of civil unrest and riots, encouraging a culture of personal and collective responsibility. Participants will be given a FREE VR resource pack. Workshop 2: Targeted youth work exploring risk This is an interactive workshop that offers participants the opportunity to explore the concept of risk and how it relates to targeted detached youth work. The workshop will consider marginalised young people and those considered at risk of offending, looking at risk in terms of vulnerability and gender as well as including activities to explore risk taking behaviour with young people. All participants in this workshop will receive a FREE special FDYW conference mini-resource pack. 6 Programme may be subject to change

7 Edwine de Boevé, Director Dynamo TBC 7 Programme may be subject to change

8 Speaker/Facilitator Biographies Kevin Jones Kevin has been involved in Youth and Community work for 25 years in the statutory and third sectors. He is currently Chair of the Federation for Detached Youth Work (FDYW) and Youth Team Leader for Trafford Housing Trust Mick Hurley OBE Associate Mick s career has been focused on tackling youth crime, youth violent crime and latterly street gangs and organised crime. Working initially in the youth offending service, Mick became the head of service for Manchester Multi agency Gang Strategy in 2003; this highly successful programme was led and developed by Mick at the height of the gang problems in south Manchester. In 2007 he was asked to transfer his expertise to the Home Office where he was part of the Tackling Gangs Action Programme (TGAP), which was set up by government following the fatal shooting of Rhys Jones in Liverpool. He was retained in the Home Office as a senior advisor on gangs and youth violence. After leaving the Home Office in 2011 Mick has primarily been engaged with Greater Manchester Police working on the development of the street gang approach and more recently the development of Programme Challenger, a unique approach to tackling organised crime in a focused and innovative way. Mick received the OBE for services to young people in 2010 Hayley Speed Hayley s work has always consisted of supporting the most socially excluded whether this is rough sleepers, survivors of domestic violence and/or sex workers. Through her recent work she has concentrated on developing and managing the health and social care support offered through the Men s Room in Manchester to male sex workers. Christopher Charles Chris s career reflects his passion for working with marginalised communities and giving them a voice through the mediums of photography and documentary filmmaking. Over twenty years he has developed and led numerous projects exploring cultural diversity, poverty, deprivation, criminality, educational inclusion, 8 Programme may be subject to change

9 mental health and the challenges faced by asylum seekers/refugees. Bill Cox MBE Bill has supported the Federation for Detached Youth Work for many years as an original member, treasurer and, more recently as the FDYW s President. Bill has worked in the voluntary sector for 50 years, including 10 years as a p/t youth worker, 4 years as a youth club leader, 6 years as a full time detached youth worker and 24 years as a full time youth work manager with responsibility for training and development. Bill retired in September Since then he has actively supported a variety of young people s provision in Liverpool. This year Bill was awarded an MBE for his invaluable contribution to youth work. Ken Stenton Ken has 18 years experience of delivering Street-based Youth-Work for different Organisations in various settings. He s been an Executive member of the Fed for the last 5 years and he s a local Town Councillor in Yorkshire. Emily Collinsbeare Emily has worked for over 17 years in youth work starting as a young volunteer in her local youth club to her current role developing the youth offer for a London borough. Emily s first paid youth work job was detached work in Plymouth back in the 90 s and through a winding road that has led her to being involved with the federation of detached youth work for 10 years at a local level and six on the national committee. Janet Batsleer Janet is a Principal Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has worked as an educator in the field of youth and community work in the North West for over 25 years. She is currently working on a study that tries to connect what is happening in formal education to the approaches to learning in community and street settings and attempting to offer some new understandings of democratic learning. Don Irving Don Irving has a wealth of experience of in detached youth work, both as a front line workers and manager. As well as heading up statutory youth services in Bexley 9 Programme may be subject to change

10 and Newcastle, Don has been involved in training detached workers for many years. Don is co-author of On the Street- A practical tool kit for Social Street Workers. Simon Whitmore Simon has extensive experience of working with young people in a wide range of youth work settings. He has developed and run detached youth work projects in Southampton, and supported both national and regional Detached Youth Work forums. Other areas of work include Targeted Youth Support, Alternative Education programmes and currently working within Family and Parenting delivering the Troubled Family programme. Simon also works as a freelance trainer both with young people and youth workers. Kerry Young Kerry is the author of The Art of Youth Work. She was a detached youth worker in the 1980s and later worked at the National Youth Bureau and Youth Clubs UK (in the Girls Work Unit). Her last post was as Assistant Director of the National Youth Agency before leaving in 1992 to become an independent youth work consultant. She left consultancy work in 2010 to concentrate on being a writer. Vanessa Rogers Vanessa is a nationally acclaimed youth work consultant / trainer with experience of managing a wide range of services for young people, including early intervention and targeted services. A leading author in her field, with over 20 resource books published by the NYA (UK) and Jessica Kingsley Publishers (UK & worldwide), she is a regular features writer for Children & Young People Now. Youth work remains her passion and she regularly works with young people across the UK and Ireland. Edwin de Boevé Edwin graduated in policy and training practices and created in 1984 Dynamo, a youth outreach service focused on street work in Belgium. Teacher and street worker in Brussels for many years, he is now Director of Dynamo International Street Workers Network. In this frame, he is an international trainer and supports the mobilisation of street workers in the 48 national platforms of street workers from both Northern and Southern countries. He is co-author of several publications, among 10 Programme may be subject to change

11 others, the International Guide on Street Work Methodology. ( Graeme Tiffany Graeme worked as a detached youth worker for many years. Since 2000 he has been an independent education consultant. His work includes lecturing, training, research, and project management, both at home and abroad. Graeme is a pioneer of Community Philosophy and a part-time PhD student in the philosophy of education. Follow his activities and read his blog at: 11 Programme may be subject to change