Reference
E/YM1/1/2
Title
Policy file with information as follows:
Date free text
1963 - 1979
Production date
From: 1963 To: 1979
Scope and Content
- Director of Education’s report on ways of supplying full-time youth leadership;
- list of County Youth Committee projects submitted for 1964/65 Building Programme grant aid with figures for each application of: number of young people in area; number who use facilities; number of evenings per week; average nightly attendance; use for other purposes; existing facilities for young people; breakdown of estimated costs. Projects comprise: Wootton Youth Centre; youth annexe to secondary school at Caddington; Sandy Area Centre, linked to Sandye Place Secondary School; youth annexe to Queen’s Park Secondary School, Bedford; Arlesey Youth Centre; Ampthill/Flitwick youth annexe; new hall for Totternhoe Methodist Youth Club; new Headquarters for Leighton Buzzard Church Scouts; Biggleswade youth centre annexed to school; North Bedfordshire Rural Area Centre, annexed to a school; new youth hall for Stotfold Salvation Army; and new sports centre at Goldington Secondary School;
- Bedfordshire County Council policy booklet on grants to youth organisations [1963];
- applications for assistance for sailing course for 90th Bedfordshire (Bunyan) Senior Scouts with Bedfordshire County Council refusal and reasons [1963];
- Borough of Bedford answers to five questions posed by Department of Education and Science Committee on Immigration & the Youth Service on immigrant problems [described as “long standing and unique” in Bedford by Borough] [1966];
- Bedfordshire County Council Children’s Department comments on how they obtain reports on the background of immigrant children [1966];
- notes on immigrants in Further Education classes in the county [1966];
- Bedfordshire County Council answers to Committee on Immigration & the Youth Service questions about provision, numbers, attitudes etc. [1966];
- discussion re problem of youth leaders being paid both by Bedfordshire County Council and by a voluntary agency for the same night’s work [1967];
- notes of Bedfordshire County Council meeting with Her Majesty's Inspectors re youth leaders [1967];
- notes on obtaining occasional licences for sale and consumption of alcohol at Youth Centres and suggesting permanent licences were more practicable [1970];
- recommendations about use of schools by youth groups in holiday periods [1971];
- letter of complaint by Luton County Borough re refusal of Bedfordshire County Council to grant assistance to an applicant wishing to attend a Girl Guide Training Course, with Bedfordshire County Council response [1972];
- notes on County Youth Service structure, premises, policy, training etc.;
- notes on intention to seek an additional Area Youth Officer, including details of duties of Area Youth Officers and numbers of events in the county [1972];
- notes of meeting of Chief Education Officer and County Director of St.John Association re co-operation in first aid training;
- memo from County Youth Officer to staff re leave arrangements [1973];
- a guide to Area Youth Officers re administrative procedure;
- discussion re supervision of swimming activities at youth clubs [1977-78];
- notes of Intermediate Treatment projects using Youth Service premises [1978];
- minutes of meeting of Youth Officers at County Hall to discuss Youth Service [1978];
- draft report on payment of part-time leaders and assistants [1979];
- note on youth organisations contributing to maintenance costs of Local Education Authority premises they use [1963];
- letter re visit to Grange Youth Club, Aylesbury, as a template for Bedfordshire County Council youth leaders [1963];
- Ministry of Education circular 10/63 re training of Part-time Youth Leaders and Assistants Conference on Training the Trainers, with Local Education Authority response [1963];
- memo re application for assistance by Police Cadets (not registered as a Youth Organisation) attending a course on expedition training [1963];
- memo re terminology of youth clubs [1964];
- note re organisations with not more than nine members over 14 being allowed exceptional free use of Local Education Authority premises;
- list of additional payment for part-time leaders, showing parish in which they work [1964];
- detailed report on Youth Service buildings, provision by the Authority [1964];
- list of applications for grant aid from Youth Service Building Programme 1966/67;
- guide to regulations concerning grant aid to capital projects of voluntary youth organisations and the new procedure [1962];
- notes re need for full-time youth leadership posts [1964];
- memo re conditions for approving grants to students participating in Outward Bound courses [1965];
- discussion re payment of clerical assistants for full-time youth leaders [1965];
- disagreement with Clerk to the Council’s decision that County Youth Committee had no power to make decisions re establishment of new Provided Youth Clubs [1966];
- memo re payment of travelling expenses for those taking voluntary classes at Youth Clubs, including reference to former officer’s incompetence [1966];
- draft report re provision of grants to Youth Clubs for equipment [1966];
- statistics re numbers of children aged 5-16+ in county schools from immigrant families, with figures for each year group and divided by sex, nationalities covered comprise: Africans; Greek and Turkish Cypriots; Hungarians; Indians; Italians; Maltese; Pakistanis; Poles; West Indians; Jugoslavs; Greeks; Americans (USAF, negro and white); Germans; Swiss; Persians; Latvians; Sicilians; Russians; Israelis; Canadians; Czechs; Lithuanians; and Egyptians; with numbers for which no problem existed re language, those with reasonably good spoken English, those with some English and those with no English at all; also figures for numbers of classes with 0-10 immigrants in them, those with 11-15 etc., rising by increments of five up to 40+. [At this date there were one and a half times as many Italians in the county than all other groups added together]. [1966]
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