The Christian Youth Work Consortium brings together denominations, Christian youth agencies and training providers. It gives a voice to Christian youth work on regional and national bodies and provides information about youth work training in the UK.
Its aims are to:
- affirm, encourage and equip the Christian sector in its work with young people
- provide an opportunity to debate and discuss key issues in youth work, youth policy and youth ministry
- be an inclusive network for leaders in Christian youth work/youth ministry agencies, training providers and denominational youth departments
- represent the Christian youth work constituency on various national and UK bodies and at key events, disseminate information, consult widely to agree common ground, and advocate on behalf of the sector.
- The consortium hosts a research community – a recent piece of work The ‘secular culture’ of youth work training was undertaken by Youthscape. Other work from the research community will be highlighted in time. Youthscape also publish The Story: Statistics, Trends and Research in Youth work on a regular basis.
A monthly news round up is provided by David Howell who leads the initiative. For more information, please contact David Howell or sign up to be a subscriber to the news here
Keeping Young People Safe in Private Dwellings
A number of senior leaders of Christian youth work/ministry across the UK have been working together over the last year in order to prepare a document for the constituency which provides a robust counter to the National Youth Agency’s position (https://www.nya.org.uk/youth-work-in-private-dwellings/ ) on youth work in private dwellings.
This work has now been published by Grove Books:
Y81 Home-grown Youth Work: Keeping young people safer in private dwellings Edited by David Howell
Safeguarding Christian youth work and ministry
The UK Christian Youth Work Consortium continues to work with thirtyone:eight and CTE to encourage Churches and Christian youth work agencies to improve Safeguarding policy and practice in response o the UK Government’s desire to improve standards in Out of School Settings. Further developments, as we become aware of them, will be published in the monthly news roundup as detailed above.
Longitudinal research into student numbers on higher education programmes in Christian youth work. The most recent report, for the academic year 2025/26, is available here