FREE training for youth workers across Northern Ireland. PlayBoard’s Youth@Play team will deliver the OCN NI endorsed Playwork in a Youth Work Setting to youth workers across the youth sector this autumn, at Level 2 for part-time staff and volunteers, and at Level 3 for full-time staff. The training is available across [...]
PlayBoard's Youth@Play project builds on the capacity of youth workers to facilitate play in youth centres for their younger members. This summer, the Youth@Play team are supporting youth workers across the sector by sharing weekly resources - PLAYmails packed with ideas, and short webinars with advice on making 2022 the best [...]
Following the success of the Youth@Play pilot programme, this current delivery, funded by the Education Authority (EA), will run from May 2022 to March 2023. Full and part-time workers and volunteers in both the statutory and voluntary sector across all council areas in Northern Ireland will have the opportunity to [...]
A reflection on the Youth@Play programme "Sliding down the grass slope on a cardboard box; building a wee den in behind all the brambles; exploring the wee stream when it went under the road and got all dark; playing 'shootie in' with my brother at half time in the FA [...]
We are delighted to share our new podcast - The Play Pod. Listen now on PodBean at http://playboardni.podbean.com or find us on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Episode 5 - Koulla Yiasouma, NI Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) joins PlayBoard CEO, Jacqueline O'Loughlin to discuss children's right to [...]
PlayBoard NI, the lead organisation for the development of children and young people’s play, joined youth workers and young leaders at a celebratory event in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Belfast on Wednesday evening. The event reflected on, acknowledged, and celebrated the achievements of PlayBoard’s Youth@Play programme and its participants, as [...]
Youth@CLC, youth advisory panel at the Children’s Law Centre, is asking 12-17 year olds across Northern Ireland to complete an online survey. Focused on implementation of children’s rights in this jurisdiction, the survey will inform a Children and Young People’s Report to be submitted to the UN Committee on the [...]
PlayBoard’s Youth@Play programme launched in early 2020. The programme, funded by the Department of Education through the Education Authority, builds on the capacity of youth workers to facilitate play in youth centres for their younger members. The pilot programme is currently being delivered to youth settings in Belfast, Armagh/Craigavon, [...]
PlayBoard’s recently established Youth@Play team have two reasons to celebrate this week. Firstly, we have welcomed a new member of staff, Aisling Hosick, to PlayBoard and the Youth@Play team. Aisling has experience of working with children in the childcare sector, and young people working in the Prince’s Trust so is [...]
