Youth Social Action Resource Hub

This YSA starter pack contains the key resources needed to plan and deliver YSA in your setting.

This guide can help users maximise the impact of working in partnership with the local community. Community and stakeholder engagement in a youth social action programme involves young people working with other interested individuals or organisations to deliver action and change. The engagement can help increase access to students' learning opportunities, boost student retention, promote optimism among teachers, and improve children's school attendance rates.

This guide's main aim is to help you understand the importance of teamwork when young people are working together on a group project. It gives you an overview of the different departments in organisations and the various roles young people can play in these departments. It explores the different stages of teamwork, such as forming, storming, morning, performing, and adjourning, and applies these to the five steps of Youth Social Action.

This YSA starter pack contains the key resources needed to plan and deliver YSA in your setting.

This guide contains the following resources to support EAL pupils: - Animated online videos (links) - Keywords (Glossary) and - Word mats

A guide that assists in applying the skills of research to the 5 step process of Youth Social Action

This guide provides details on how pupils can contribute to working as part of a team in appropriate ways

The Skint report is a youth-led, UK-based young people aged 16-25 years’ perspective on how young people are experiencing the cost-of-living crisis. The report was based on a survey response from 476 young people. The youth voice giving clear recommendations to policy makers and politicians, including the urgency of the situation. Findings - 97% said they thought the rising cost of living was a problem for young people aged 16-25 today. 98% of respondents are in some way worrying about their future in relation to the cost-of-living crisis.