Consultation on draft Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls – Ofcom
21st March 2025
Consultation on draft Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls - Ofcom Ofcom are consulting on draft guidance, which sets out nine areas where technology firms should do more to improve women and girls’ online safety by taking responsibility, designing their services to prevent harm and supporting their users. The Online Safety Act…
Alun Michael OBE joins CWVYS as President
20th March 2025
The Rt Hon Alun Michael OBE JP OStJ PC FRSA has agreed to take on the role of CWVYS President with immediate effect. Alun has a long career of public service, he served as Deputy Home Secretary and in 1997 he introduced Community Safety Partnerships, Youth Offending Teams and the Youth Justice Board. He was…
Feedback on the National Youth Work Conference
28th February 2025
A week on from the Youth Work Conference and we'd like your feedback! Those of you who were able to attend last Thurasday's National Youth Work Conference in Cardiff, while it's still fresh-ish in your minds, would you mind taking a few minutes to share your thoughts and impressions? Please follow this link tinyurl.com/adbrth to…
Taith, apply for Pathway 1 funding with support
28th February 2025
Taith is an international learning exchange programme established to create life-changing opportunities for people in Wales to learn, study and volunteer all over the world. They embed an international approach into every level of our education system. Taith is for people in every part of Wales, and in every type of education setting. The sectors…
Current Vacancies with CWVYS members
28th February 2025
EYST is recruiting a BME CYP Sessional Youth Support Worker (Cardiff) Male* https://eystwales.bamboohr.com/careers/71?source=aWQ9MTU= For an informal chat about this role please contact Fateha@eyst.org.uk Deadline for applications is Thursday 27th Feb at 23.59 2025 EYST is looking to appoint a Youth and Family Support Worker (Swansea) https://eystwales.bamboohr.com/careers/73?source=aWQ9MTU= For an informal chat about this role please contact Helal@eyst.org.uk Deadline for…
No Smoking Day 2025 – Toolkit for youth groups
28th February 2025
CWVYS members ASH Wales have created a number of engaging resources to help you promote this year’s No Smoking Day, which takes place on the 12th of March. The theme is Every Minute Counts, which links to research suggesting smoking just one cigarette can take 20 minutes off a life. With this in mind they…
Retirement of Margaret and Richard Jarvis
28th February 2025
We would like to share some news from our members Valleys Kids; Yes, it’s true. This time Margaret and Richard really have retired. It’s a significant moment for Valleys Kids: Margaret and Richard have decided it’s time for them to retire. On January 14th, Margaret has been working for exactly seventy years; she feels that…
Strategic Voluntary Youth Work Organisation (SVYWO) grant scheme success
6th February 2025
Here is a list of successful applicants to the SVYWO grant scheme; National organisations: Boys and Girls Clubs of Wales DofE NYAS Cymru ProMo Cymru ScoutsCymru St John Ambulance Cymru Urdd Gobaith Cymru WCIA (Welsh Centre for International Affairs) Youth Cymru Specialist organisations: Canolfan Maerdy YMCA Cardiff Dr M'z EYST Wales STAND North Wales CIC…
Cabinet Secretary for Education Statement on Youth Work Funding
6th February 2025
A review of funding for youth work in Wales - Lynne Neagle, Cabinet Secretary for Education Youth work is a vital part of the education family in Wales. Youth work can help young people to build relationships with peers and trusted adults, to gain confidence, participate in social activities and provide the support they need…
Passing of Alan Higgins OBE OStJ
30th January 2025
CWVYS is very sorry to learn of the sad news concerning the passing of Alan Higgins OBE OStJ in November 2024. Alan was, among many other things, a CWVYS Vice-President for several years and spoke passionately at CWVYS's 70th anniversary celebrations at the Senedd in 2017. We will cherish our working with him over the…
More learners to receive financial support through Education Maintenance Allowance
30th January 2025
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is a weekly grant of £40, designed to support 16 to 18-year-olds from eligible households with further education costs, such as transport or meals. EMA was ended in England in 2011, and is retained at a lower rate of £30 in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Currently over 16,000 students receive EMA but…
RSBC Eye connect project – making youth work more inclusive for blind and partially sighted children and young people
24th January 2025
Making your activities inclusive: Wales (formerly Capacity building training) Who are we? Eye connect project is a new programme funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. The Royal Society of Blind Children (RSBC) are working across Wales in partnership with the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS), The Welsh Council of the Blind,…