6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
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Table 47: Participants <strong>in</strong> youth work <strong>in</strong> Dutch municipalities<br />
Comments:<br />
Differences at local level<br />
96<br />
Total 13-14 % 15-19 % 20-24 % 25-30 % Miss<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Cultural youth work 12 6 50% 6 50% / / 0<br />
Sports 890 361 41% 324 36% 58 7% 105 12% 42<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong> 105 15 14% 18 17% 3 3% / 69<br />
Mentor<strong>in</strong>g 80 64 80% 16 20% / / 0<br />
Recreati<strong>on</strong> 123 26 21% 88 72% 9 7% / 0<br />
The survey of the four Dutch municipalities has c<strong>on</strong>tributed relevant <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong> to the limited<br />
picture of youth work drawn at nati<strong>on</strong>al level. The ma<strong>in</strong> f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g here is, that the nature and<br />
scope of youth work at local level depends <strong>on</strong> the social structure and the special needs of<br />
the <strong>in</strong>habitants. In municipalities with underprivileged youth groups, greater efforts are made<br />
to provide <strong>in</strong>itiatives that support the <strong>in</strong>tegrati<strong>on</strong> of these young people, whereas <strong>in</strong><br />
municipalities with well-situated <strong>in</strong>habitants there is to a greater extend a youth work<br />
structure that is regulated by the market. Bey<strong>on</strong>d this it is strik<strong>in</strong>g that also the social ideas of<br />
the <strong>in</strong>habitants also <strong>in</strong>fluence the provisi<strong>on</strong> of youth work.<br />
Differences between nati<strong>on</strong>al and local level<br />
In c<strong>on</strong>trast to the data about youth work available at nati<strong>on</strong>al level <strong>in</strong> the Netherlands, the<br />
data about the situati<strong>on</strong> at local level highlights the high number of volunteers <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong><br />
youth work. The tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g of these volunteers seems to depend <strong>on</strong> the traditi<strong>on</strong> of the<br />
providers, as <strong>on</strong>e can f<strong>in</strong>d organisati<strong>on</strong>s where <strong>on</strong>ly a small number of volunteers are<br />
tra<strong>in</strong>ed, and others where this is the case for all of them. There is also another remarkable<br />
trend: if the activities <strong>in</strong> which volunteers are <strong>in</strong>volved are demand<strong>in</strong>g, then most of them are<br />
tra<strong>in</strong>ed.<br />
Regard<strong>in</strong>g the age of the young people <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> youth work, the local survey has<br />
c<strong>on</strong>firmed the nati<strong>on</strong>al level data that identified 12- to 16-year-olds as the ma<strong>in</strong> target group<br />
of youth work. Sports, recreati<strong>on</strong>, youth clubs and extracurricular youth educati<strong>on</strong> are the<br />
ma<strong>in</strong> acti<strong>on</strong> fields of youth work identified at local level.<br />
10.8 Norway<br />
Data base:<br />
The number of <strong>in</strong>habitants, which can <strong>in</strong>fluence the number of public and voluntary youth<br />
work activities, was the first criteri<strong>on</strong> for the selecti<strong>on</strong> of the four municipalities. The sec<strong>on</strong>d<br />
was the level of urbanisati<strong>on</strong>. In Norway there is large variati<strong>on</strong> <strong>in</strong> the level of urbanisati<strong>on</strong><br />
between the municipalities. It is possibly more challeng<strong>in</strong>g to c<strong>on</strong>duct youth work <strong>in</strong> rural