Training & Services
Supervision and Coaching
A supportive space for practitioners to reflect, work through challenges and strengthen everyday practice. Tailored coaching and supervision help you build confidence, explore new perspectives and identify practical next steps for your professional growth.
Initial conversation
20 minutes to explore your needs and suitability
Free
Single session
60 minutes of individual coaching or reflective supervision
£75
Focused support
Three 60-minute sessions to explore a practice challenge or development goal
£210
Ongoing development
Six 60-minute sessions supporting sustained reflection and professional growth
£390
Monthly supervision
One 60-minute session each month, with an initial three-month commitment
£70 per month
Small-group supervision
90-minute facilitated session for 3–6 practitioners
£180 per group
Young People and Alcohol: Risk & Experimentation
Understand experimentation. Talk openly about risk. Support safer choices.
A practical, interactive training offer for professionals working with young people. Explore how to approach conversations about alcohol with confidence, curiosity and clear boundaries—without judgement, scare tactics or assumptions that all young people drink.
The training explores experimentation, peer influence and the social contexts of alcohol use, helping practitioners consider risk without losing sight of young people’s experiences, strengths and capacity to make decisions. Through scenarios, discussion and reflective activities, participants will develop approaches to alcohol education, harm reduction and responding to concerns.
Designed for youth workers, community practitioners, targeted support staff, volunteers and managers, the session can be tailored to your team’s experience, setting and local priorities.
What participants will explore
• Experimentation and motivation: Exploring curiosity, belonging, enjoyment, coping and social expectations without assuming a single explanation for drinking.
• Understanding risk: Considering patterns of use, vulnerability, environments and the circumstances surrounding alcohol use.
• Meaningful conversations: Using open questions, active listening and non-judgemental approaches to explore choices and consequences.
• Alcohol education and harm reduction: Developing accessible activities that support informed decisions without presenting drinking as inevitable or risk-free.
• Safeguarding and professional boundaries: Exploring confidentiality, information sharing, immediate concerns and local procedures.
• Support and referral: Recognising the limits of your role and identifying when additional or specialist support is needed.
Delivery options and pricing
Half-day: Three hours
£450 Live Online
£550 Face to Face
Full-day: Six hours
£750 Online
£900 Face to Face
Maximum 20 participants
YWCR Attendance Certificate
Travel and Overnight Costs as needed to be discussed on set up.
Fees are per commissioned group session, not per participant. Group size and any tailoring requirements will be agreed before booking. Travel and any accommodation for face-to-face delivery will be agreed in advance.
County Lines & Criminal Exploitation
Recognise the signs. Understand the risks. Strengthen your response.
A practical, interactive training offer for professionals working with children and young people. Build your confidence to recognise potential criminal exploitation, respond to concerns and develop safeguarding practice that places young people’s safety, rights and relationships at the centre.
County lines can involve exploiting children and vulnerable adults to move, store and sell drugs and money, using coercion, intimidation and violence; it can happen locally as well as across geographical boundaries.
Through discussion, realistic case studies and reflective activities, participants will explore grooming, power and control, challenge victim-blaming assumptions and consider how to work effectively with young people, families and partner agencies.
Who is it for?
Youth workers, schools and college staff, community practitioners, housing teams, early help workers, volunteers and managers supporting children and young people.
Half-day: Awareness and Response
Three hours of training, providing an accessible introduction and practical guidance for everyday work.
Participants will explore:
• What county lines and child criminal exploitation mean.
• Grooming, coercion, control and barriers to seeking help.
• Potential warning signs and how to explore concerns sensitively.
• Responding to disclosures, recording concerns and following local safeguarding procedures.
• Building trusting relationships and using non-judgemental, child-centred language.
Learning outcome: Participants will be better equipped to recognise potential exploitation, respond appropriately and identify the next steps within their role.
Full-day: Understanding into Practice
Six hours of training, excluding breaks, combining the half-day foundations with deeper application to practice.
Additional content includes:
• Extended case studies and collaborative decision-making.
• Understanding risks in peer groups, communities and online spaces.
• Trauma-informed engagement and avoiding victim-blaming responses.
• Working with families and strengthening protective relationships.
• Partnership working, information sharing and an introduction to relevant modern slavery referral pathways.
• Reviewing organisational responses and developing a practical action plan.
Learning outcome: Participants will develop a more informed, coordinated approach to prevention, identification and safeguarding responses.
Group Prices
Training option
Half-day: Three hours
£450 Live Online
£550 Face to Face
Full-day: Six hours
£750 Online
£900 Face to Face
Maximum 20 participants
YWCR Attendance Certificate
Travel and Overnight Costs as needed to be discussed on set up
Detached and Street Work
Go to where young people are. Build relationships that matter. Strengthen your practice.
Detached and street work remains one of the clearest ways to connect with young people in their own spaces, on their own terms, and through voluntary relationships. This training offer is designed for practitioners, teams and organisations who want to deepen their understanding of detached and street-based youth work, strengthen practice confidence and think critically about purpose, safety, ethics and impact.
Participants will explore the principles, values and realities of detached and street work, including relationship-building, engagement in public space, assessing risk, professional boundaries, safeguarding, recording, teamwork and responding to challenge in the moment. The session combines practical examples, reflection and applied discussion so staff leave with greater clarity, confidence and ideas they can use in real contexts.
This offer is suitable for youth workers, targeted support staff, community practitioners, volunteers, managers and organisations developing or refreshing detached, outreach or street-based practice. It can be tailored for new teams, experienced staff, service redesign, local context, or a specific practice issue you want to explore in more depth.
Pricing:
These prices are aligned with the pricing pattern already developed for your training offers, including half day and full day options delivered online or face to face.
Half-day: Three hours
£450 Live Online
£550 Face to Face
Full-day: Six hours
£750 Online
£900 Face to Face
Maximum 20 participants
YWCR Attendance Certificate
Travel and any accommodation for face-to-face delivery should be agreed in advance
Team Development
Would your team increase their performance with an individualised training day/half day?
Exploration of roles, competencies and benchmarks based around your current practice and working towards aspirational work with young people.
What you Receive
Discovery call to examine needs and focus
Half day or full day team activities based around developmental markers.
Using a principle of starting from strengths. The examination of skills, knowledge and responses to practical activities that explore how work with young people can be developed further through activities that draw out self awareness and team development goals. Strategies and plans to increase performance will be secure outcomes.
Group Prices
Training option
Half-day: Three hours
£450 Live Online
£550 Face to Face
Full-day: Six hours
£750 Online
£900 Face to Face
Maximum 20 participants
YWCR Attendance Certificate
Travel and Overnight Costs as needed to be discussed on set up
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1. Youth Work Essentials
Explore the purpose, principles and distinctive contribution of youth work.
2. Youth Work Values in Action
Apply voluntary participation, equality, education and empowerment to everyday decisions.
3. Understanding Informal Education
Recognise and create learning opportunities through conversation, relationships and shared activity.
4. The Purposeful Youth Work Conversation
Move beyond casual interaction without turning every conversation into an intervention.
5. Working With, Not Doing To
Examine practitioner power, shared decision-making and young people’s agency.
6. Professional Identity and Confidence
Develop a clear account of what you do, why it matters and how you practise.
7. Ethics in Everyday Practice
Work through dilemmas involving confidentiality, competing responsibilities and professional judgement.
8. Planning Responsive Youth Work
Prepare purposeful sessions while remaining responsive to young people’s interests and circumstances.
9. Making Theory Useful
Connect practice situations with relevant educational, sociological and developmental ideas.
10. Starting Well in Youth and Community Work
Build practical readiness for students, volunteers, apprentices and newly appointed workers.
11. Building Trust With Young People
Develop credibility, consistency and respectful relationships over time.
12. Engaging Young People Who Distrust Services
Explore resistance, previous service experiences and engagement without coercion.
13. Listening Beyond the Words
Practise attentive listening, checking understanding and responding to silence.
14. Asking Better Questions
Use open, exploratory and appropriately challenging questions.
15. Difficult Conversations With Care
Address sensitive issues without shame, avoidance or unnecessary confrontation.
16. Professional Boundaries in Relational Work
Navigate availability, personal disclosure, gifts, contact and overlapping community relationships.
17. Strengths-Based Conversations
Recognise abilities, relationships and resources without minimising difficulty.
18. Motivational Conversations
Explore ambivalence and support self-directed change through introductory skills practice.
19. Working With Anger and Resistance
Respond to strong feelings while maintaining dignity and clear boundaries.
20. Ending Relationships Well
Prepare for transitions, project endings, referrals and practitioner departures.
21. Group Work Essentials
Understand group purpose, development, belonging and practitioner responsibilities.
22. Planning Meaningful Group Sessions
Design sessions with clear intentions, accessible activities and reflective endings.
23. Understanding Group Dynamics
Recognise roles, alliances, influence, exclusion and changing relationships.
24. Facilitating Inclusive Discussions
Balance participation and make room for quieter or marginalised voices.
25. Responding to Challenging Group Behaviour
Address disruption, disengagement and conflict without relying on punishment.
26. Activities With Educational Purpose
Select and adapt games, exercises and creative tasks to support learning.
27. Working With Conflict in Groups
Explore disagreement, repair and collective responsibility.
28. Co-Creating Group Agreements
Develop shared expectations that remain meaningful beyond the first session.
29. Facilitating Sensitive Topics
Prepare for discussions about identity, relationships, discrimination and harm.
30. Reviewing Learning With Groups
Use accessible reflection and feedback to help participants recognise learning.
31. Safeguarding in Everyday Youth Work
Apply safeguarding awareness to relationships, activities and informal settings.
32. Responding to Disclosures
Practise listening, immediate responses, recording and appropriate reporting.
33. Confidentiality and Information Sharing
Explain confidentiality limits and work through information-sharing dilemmas.
34. Professional Curiosity in Practice
Explore uncertainty, notice patterns and avoid premature assumptions.
35. Understanding Extra-Familial Harm
Examine harm associated with peer groups, neighbourhoods and other social contexts.
36. Recognising Exploitation and Coercion
Build introductory awareness of manipulation, control and routes to specialist support.
37. Safer Detached and Outreach Practice
Consider preparation, communication, boundaries and dynamic safety decisions.
38. Lone Working and Professional Safety
Work through practical scenarios involving visits, travel and unexpected situations.
39. Recording Concerns Clearly
Distinguish observation, reported information, professional interpretation and action.
40. Professional Challenge and Escalation
Practise raising concerns when responses appear insufficient or disagreement remains.
41. Emotionally Supportive Youth Work
Offer compassionate support while remaining within a youth work role.
42. Understanding Distress Without Diagnosing
Respond to difficulties without assigning clinical labels or exceeding competence.
43. Trauma-Aware Everyday Practice
Examine choice, predictability, safety and relational sensitivity.
44. Supporting Young People Experiencing Anxiety
Explore accessible participation, supportive conversations and referral boundaries.
45. Responding to Grief and Loss
Consider bereavement, relationship loss, disrupted belonging and significant transitions.
46. Loneliness, Belonging and Connection
Develop activities and conversations that strengthen meaningful social connection.
47. Conversations About Self-Harm and Suicide
Specialist-partner awareness training on responding, escalating concerns and accessing support.
48. Substance Use Conversations
Explore non-judgemental engagement, role boundaries and specialist referral.
49. Supporting Emotional Literacy
Help young people recognise, discuss and express emotions through informal education.
50. Referral Without Abandonment
Prepare supported introductions, explain next steps and maintain appropriate contact
51. Anti-Oppressive Practice in Action
Examine power, structural inequality and everyday professional choices.
52. Anti-Racist Youth and Community Work
Explore racism, practitioner accountability and responses to discriminatory incidents.
53. Challenging Discriminatory Language
Practise proportionate responses that combine clear boundaries with educational dialogue.
54. LGBTQ+ Inclusive Practice
Review language, participation, privacy and inclusive activities.
55. Gender-Aware Youth Work
Explore expectations, stereotypes and gendered experiences without making assumptions.
56. Working With Boys and Young Men
Facilitate learning about masculinity, belonging, relationships and help-seeking.
57. Working With Girls and Young Women
Develop responsive spaces for voice, identity, safety and shared learning.
58. Neuroinclusive Youth Work
Adapt communication, environments and participation options to different needs.
59. Disability-Inclusive Activities
Identify barriers and co-design reasonable, practical adaptations.
60. Poverty-Aware Practice
Examine hidden costs, stigma, access and respectful responses to financial hardship.
61. Working Across Faiths and Worldviews
Support dialogue, curiosity and respectful participation across differences.
62. Welcoming Refugee and Newly Arrived Young People
Explore belonging, language access, cultural humility and partnership support.
63. Participation Beyond Consultation
Move from collecting views towards meaningful influence and shared decisions.
64. Co-Designing With Young People
Involve participants in defining needs, developing ideas and reviewing activities.
65. Making Youth Voice Accessible
Offer alternatives to formal meetings, confident speaking and written feedback.
66. Supporting Youth Forums
Help participants shape agendas, discuss issues and communicate their priorities.
67. From Concern to Collective Action
Support groups to turn shared concerns into achievable action.
68. Planning Youth-Led Social Action
Facilitate issue selection, practical planning, reflection and participant ownership.
69. Campaigning and Civic Participation
Explore accessible ways to influence decisions, with attention to context and boundaries.
70. Power and Tokenism in Participation
Examine who sets the agenda, controls resources and makes final decisions.
71. Creative Consultation Methods
Use photography, mapping, storytelling, art and informal conversations.
72. Closing the Feedback Loop
Explain what changed, what did not change and what happens next.
73. Community Development Essentials
Explore collective learning, participation, community agency and social change.
74. Getting to Know a Community
Develop respectful approaches to listening, observation and relationship-building.
75. Asset-Based Community Practice
Identify local strengths and connections alongside needs and inequalities.
76. Community Mapping With Residents
Map places, resources, relationships, barriers and opportunities collaboratively.
77. Building Trust With Communities
Consider credibility, consistency, transparency and previous experiences of services.
78. Engaging Beyond the Usual Voices
Examine who is missing and adapt engagement approaches accordingly.
79. Facilitating Community Conversations
Support accessible dialogue about local experiences, concerns and possibilities.
80. Working With Community Tensions
Explore competing perspectives, difficult histories and safe dialogue.
81. Intergenerational Practice
Design shared activities that encourage exchange without reinforcing stereotypes.
82. Supporting Resident-Led Action
Help residents develop and pursue their own ideas without taking over.
83. Place, Identity and Belonging
Explore how neighbourhood experiences shape participation and connection.
84. Community Storytelling and Local Knowledge
Use ethical approaches to gathering and sharing community experiences.
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