Reference
E/YM2/1/1
Title
Correspondence file including information as follows:
Date free text
1970 - 1988
Production date
From: 1970 To: 1988
Scope and Content
- discussion of Youth Worker’s scheme for working with young people at AC Delco, Dunstable about which he did not first consult his Area Youth Officer [1970];
- Principal Medical Officer’s intention to open Youth Counselling Service weekly rather than fortnightly [1972];
- regulations re small pilot scheme on activity leadership [1973];
- suggestion to Youth Leaders that one night per week they undertake a job outside their own club, in order to broaden the scope of their experience [1971];
- guidelines on holiday periods, laid down due to increasing numbers of full-time staff in Youth Service [1973];
- regulations for Youth Club visits outside the county [1973];
- request that staff try to make savings of 10% on petrol consumption [1973];
- newspaper cutting re declining attendance at Dunstable Youth Clubs and alleged investigation by Youth Leaders, with notes by County Youth Officer to leader of Houghton Regis Youth Club, using very forthright terms, about speaking to the press despite CYO’s forbidding it, and letter to the leader following an interview with County Youth Officer setting out future guidelines for press interviews [1974];
- Chief Education Officer’s circular re safety in outdoor pursuits [1974];
- Chief Education Officer’s circular re Mountain Leadership Certificate one week Introductory Training at Blue Peris [1975];
- letter requesting internal advertisement of full-time youth vacancies with County Youth Officer’s reply [1975];
- suggestions by Northern Area staff to improve County Staff Meetings which were seen as austere, inhibiting, open to manipulation and belittling [1984];
- agendas of a few County Staff Meetings included as examples [1984-1985];
- County Staff Meeting support paper on use of club closure periods [1984];
- notes of a County Staff Meeting included as an example of discussion [1984];
- Deputy County Youth Officer’s circular re Youth Service Summer Programmes [1984];
- Chief Education Officer’s report on Youth Service and Handicapped Young People [1982];
- photocopied newspaper cuttings re local International Youth Year events [1985];
- note of County Staff Meeting’s request for Awareness/Sensitivity training for professional youth workers [1985];
- Chief Education Officer’s circular to Youth Workers on contraception and abortion advice following the legal case Gillick v.West Norfolk Health Authority [1985];
- closure of Youth Centres at Christmas, Bank Holidays and half-terms as energy conservation measures [1985];
- invitation to part-time staff to enrol on induction courses [1985];
- notes on process of deciding 1986 Summer Programme events [1985];
- memo re professional youth workers representatives on Youth Sub-Committee [1985];
- definition of personal skills Youth Service sought to foster;
- Chief Education Officer’s report on Reviews by Area Youth Committees [1985];
- recommendations on needs of North, Mid and South Areas [1985];
- results of staff meeting buzz groups on racism (a series of phrases on the subject thrown up by debate) [1986];
- brochure for development course in management skills for Youth Service [1986];
- Youth Service manual on part-time staff induction [1986];
- Youth Service manual on full-time staff induction [1986];
- programme for County Staff Gathering to discuss future structure of meetings [1987];
- London College of Dance & Drama evaluation of Bedford Youth Dance Project [1987];
- minutes of meeting to discuss Bedford Youth Dance Project [1987];
- correspondence re Bedford Youth Dance Project [1987];
- County Youth Officer’s circular memo re displaying National Children’s Homes “Careline” posters prominently [1987];
- Bedfordshire County Council policy statement against apartheid [1987];
- County Youth Officer’s circular memo re introduction of regular staff development interviews [1987];
- notes from meeting of Anti-Apartheid Group [1987];
- County Youth Officer’s circular memo re management training [1987];
- results of brainstorming session of Anti-Sexist Working Party [1988];
- questionnaire prepared by Anti-Sexist Working Party;
- County Youth Officer’s circular memo re selection interviewing courses [1988];
- questions for discussion raised at Staff Conference [1988];
- Youth Service Training Officer’s circular memo re Senior Member Involvement Training [1988].
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