CALL FOR SERVICE

Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board, the state education and training authority for Limerick and Clare, is seeking an organisation with experience of providing a Youth Work, Community Drug Education and Prevention Service to Young People. This project is being established in line with the UBU Your Place Your Space scheme funded by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY).

The mission of the UBU Your Place Your Space Funding Scheme is:

‘To provide out-of-school supports to young people in their local communities to enable them to overcome adverse circumstances and achieve their full potential by improving their personal and social development outcomes.’

The organisation that Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board is seeking should:

1. Exemplify good practice in relation to vision, methodologies, governance, compliance, programme design, delivery and evaluation
2. Demonstrate a clear understanding of and commitment to youth work as a non-formal education process for young people
3. Be experienced in working with targeted young people aged 10 - 24 years with complexity of needs, using non-formal educational methodology
4. Operate in an out-of-school setting, including evenings, weekends and school holidays
5. Understand the nature and needs of young people living in disadvantaged communities and offer appropriate responses
6. Be able to devise and measure effective responses to the needs of the target group
7. Be committed to on-going sharing of learning and collaboration.

A Call for Service Information Pack is available from: elizabeth.roche@lcetb.ie.

The closing date for completed Call for Service submissions is 12 noon, Friday 24th January 2025. The Call for Service submission must be submitted electronically to the above email address. It is the responsibility of each respondent to ensure that the Call for Service submission reaches Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board before the deadline.
Call for Service submissions sent to any other address (other than the one indicated above), or received after the deadline, will be deemed invalid.