Positive Activities: Good Practice Guidance
Delivering Sports, Arts and Culture Activities as part of the Friday/Saturday Night Youth Offer
As part of 'Aiming high for young people: three years on', the Government has set out the progress that has been made in ensuring that all young people have access to high quality, positive leisure-time activities. Participation in constructive leisure-time activities, particularly those that are sustained through the teenage years, can help develop young people’s social and emotional skills and have a significant impact on outcomes in later life. Despite the progress made, we need to do more to deliver positive activities at the times and places that young people and their communities tell us they are needed – particularly on Friday and Saturday nights, when incidents of anti-social behaviour are at their highest, yet provision often remains substantially lower than on other nights of the week. This guidance sets out case studies that demonstrate the benefits of a partnership approach to the development of the youth offer at local level. Collaborative working can help local authorities to meet their statutory duty; support the delivery of the five hour sport offer; and enrich local youth offers through the inclusion of a diverse range of arts, culture and sport activities.
These documents are available online in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
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