News: Community Widens to Support Sector

NCVYS and the National Youth Agency (NYA), Department for Education and Local Government Association (LGA) are to widen membership and develop content of the Supporting Services for Young People Community of Practice (CoP).

The Community, which was established in 2011 will serve as a FREE electronic entrance gateway to a wide variety of resources including forums, blogs, online events and a document library. It is a resource designed for all those that work in the youth sector.

The CoP will be a legacy site for Positive for Youth, hosting materials relating to this and be the location for discussions that arise out of it. It will also be used to hold, promote and seek information for the voluntary and community sector as well as remaining the location for the NYA’s Routes to Success programme of work for local authorities.

Alex Stutz, NYA Head of Policy, comments: “As a greater emphasis is placed on collaboration and partnership with the introduction of Positive for Youth, we recognise the importance of providing a single hub for the sector to come together to develop its practice and share knowledge on a local and national level.” The wider community will be launched in March 2012 and will be hosted on a new platform – The Knowledge Hub – which will be a single window into a world of innovation, improvement and performance maintained by the  LGA. Existing Community of Practice users will be automatically migrated to  the new platform.

For further information and to register interest in joining please contact Faiza Chaudary ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Alex Stutz ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).^[1][2]

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