Youth Work Week 2024

Young People’s Services (YPS) is a borough wide service that provides quality and intensive Targeted Youth Support to young people aged between 8 – 19 years that are referred in via Schools, Police, Children’s Social Care and various Local Authority and Voluntary Community Faith Sector partners.

The service also delivers universal Blackburn with Darwen Youth Forums and targeted participation voice groups which include "Children in our care" forums. We offer bespoke activity packages to schools and youth organisations along with the delivery of DofE and NCS programmes.