Youth Social Action Resource Hub

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.

The main aim of this guide is to give you advice on: Youth Social Action project ideas (based on projects run by other young people) How to Turn Ideas into Youth Social Action Projects How to raise money How to raise other goods (hygiene products/food for the food bank) How to spread the word

On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Overview of Teaching Lesson 1: Understand the meaning of Inclusion and Diversity Lesson 2: Focusing on discrimination and prejudice and how we are all treated differently Lesson 3 - 5: Understanding Diversity

Schools have a responsibility to tackle poverty and promote equality of opportunity. Teaching young people about poverty can empower them to understand the subject and its impact, motivating them to act within a school, community, or city. At each key stage, we have used the National Curriculum, providing links and examples of how poverty and its impact can be delivered through a range of subjects or as bespoke lessons as part of the inspire and explore steps of Youth Social Action.

This curriculum map provides links to integrate the topic of Climate Change within the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. It can be read to obtain an overview of how Climate Change can be taught through the National Curriculum subjects, the skills needed by young people to deliver social action.

This curriculum map provides links to integrate the topic of Climate Change within the National Curriculum at Key Stages 2. It can be read to obtain an overview of how Climate Change can be taught through the National Curriculum subjects, the skills needed by young people to deliver social action.

This curriculum map provides links to integrate the topic of Climate Change within the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1.
It can be read to obtain an overview of how Climate Change can be taught through the National Curriculum subjects and the skills needed by young people to deliver social action.