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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...

Be transparent!!!

I was watching an Australian political review program this evening and as I was watching I realised something much mo...

When your policy says nothing: Youth work practice wisdom

I have read more policy documents in the last month than I have read in the last two years. It has really hurt my hea...

Managers need support to do their job: youth work depends on it.

For youth workers to be the best they can be, they need well trained and supported management. We need to have manage...

Managers just need to get out of the way of great youth work.

In the height of this neoliberalist push towards managerialism we are finding that more managers seem to be looking o...