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Let’s talk about reflective practice.

I was in a youth advisory committee meeting for a local council last week and we asked each young person what issues ...

7 signs you need more supervision

You need more supervision! When we tell people what we do at Ultimate Youth Worker and that youth workers need more s...

Why you should support external supervision

Over a career spanning 15 years I have seen some abysmal youth work management. For the most part it is a pure lack o...

The youth work supervision environment: importance of neutrality

The supervision environment is important to staff uptake All to often I hear from youth workers that they don’t...

Seven things a manager needs to know about internal supervision?

You should be doing internal supervision As a youth worker who managed staff one of the areas I spent a lot of my tim...

8 tips for amazing youth work external supervision.

External supervision Two years ago when Ultimate Youth Worker began we started as a small external supervision servic...

We need to do better: Critically reflective practice and supervision in youth work

This evening I sat in on a class preparing students for a masters degree placement in the human services. The topic f...
Critical reflection

youth work peer consultation: reflective practice revisited

Reflective practice with your peers We have all had those moments in our youth work career. We are stuck and we don’t...