Creating opportunities for young people to have

options for future education, training and employment.

Youth Engagement Service is an exciting alternative educational provision and vocational training centre for disengaged young people.

We work with young people aged 13-19 who are excluded or on the verge of exclusion from education and society.

We work with young people with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties, and aim to help them achieve the greatest possible access to learning in preparation for the experiences life has to bring.

We place young people in real work like environments that present them with practical hands on skills.

Progression is  just as important. We work very close with our young people to ensure there is a future work strategy in place for when they leave us.

Each young person is given opportunities to encourage them to develop their skills, qualities and self-esteem through an individualised approach in a consistent, caring and supportive environment.

 "One of the most popular and successful provisions I have found is the Youth Engagement Service....the fact that the young people turn up each week and ask for more is testimony to the quality of the experience provided.

The difficult youngsters I have taken there have been involved with plumbing, joinery, plastering, tiling and bricklaying."

D.Lord- Education Welfare