Long description

This diagram is described in the unit text as showing one way of ‘cutting the cake’ and dividing work with young people into categories. It is a circle, divided into 12 segments or ‘slices’, with each segment representing a different area of work with young people.

Each segment is divided into an inner section (darker in shade) representing the ‘core’ young people’s workforce, i.e. those who usually work directly with young people, and an outer section (lighter in shade) representing the ’wider’ young people’s workforce, i.e. those who may spend some time working directly with young people, but who also spend much or perhaps most of it working with other adults.

The segments are as follows, with examples of ‘core’ and ‘wider’ workers for each.

Education and schools

Core: Connexions, education welfare and attendance, learning mentors, extended schools staff, school library staff

Wider: Family support advisers

Housing

Core: Housing and accommodation support workers

Wider: Housing advice workers

Playwork

Core: Assistant playworker, playworker, play ranger

Wider: Play work manager, play development worker

Social care

Core: Community workers, leaving care workers

Wider: None

Youth justice

Core: Youth justice, youth offending teams, staff working in secure estates

Wider: Police in school liaison and child protection roles

Youth work

Core: Youth workers; youth support workers; information, advice and guidance workers; youth workers in voluntary, community or faith sectors

Wider: Administrative staff in youth centres

Substance misuse

Core: Substance misuse, outreach worker, young people’s drug health worker

Wider: Young people’s substance misuse strategy co-ordinator

Sport and recreation

Core: Coaches, fitness and other instructors, activity leaders, lifeguards

Wider: Spectator control, studio/duty managers, sport and club development officers

Volunteers

Core: Scout leaders, Guide leaders, sports and activity leaders

Wider: Management committee member, board trustee

Outdoors

Core: Activity leader, instructor, tutor, trainer, programme leader, practitioner, facilitator, expedition leader

Wider: Residential sites – facility manager, head of centre

Health

Core: Psychotherapists, psychiatrists, school nursing teams, community paediatricians, teenage pregnancy workers, CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)

Wider: Nutritional therapists, art therapists

Creative and cultural

Core: Arts, cultural heritage workers, choreographers, dance teachers, music teachers

Wider: Community musicians, entertainers