Introducing yourself and your organization
Introducing your organization
Provider structures in child and youth services
1. The following text outlines the areas of responsibility in the German youth work system. Please read the text and match the underlined terms with their definitions.
Federation: Enacts legislation on Book 8 of the Social Code – Children and Youth; incentives and financial support for cross-state child and youth services; Federal Youth Board (Bundesjugendkuratorium); four-yearly Child and Youth Report of the Federal Government. Länder (federal states): Länder implementing acts to Social Code Book 8; financial support for state-wide child and youth services infrastructure ; Child and Youth Plans of the Länder; the Länder assist the local youth providers of youth services by providing advice and further training. Local authorities: Towns that are administrative districts in their own right and counties (in some cases larger towns within administrative districts), as public-sector providers, establish a youth welfare office; overall responsibility for planning and the local fulfilment of tasks under Book 8; local youth services planned and structured in the context of local self-government.
to establish laws
a. Enacts legislation
when people elect local councils who are then given the authority to solve important issues
b. Incentives
the largest local administrative unit in various countries
c. financial support
d. cross-state child and youth services
something, usually offer of money, to make people do something
within one federal state
e. implementing acts
f. state-wide child and youth services infrastructure
service options
organisations or institutions not regulated by law and often have a private function an area (a city or a commune) which has its own administrative authority to give money to make it possible for that person or institution to function
g. administrative districts
h. a county
i. a youth welfare office
operating over the state borders
j. local self-government
to carry out laws
k. offerings
an office that is responsible for the health and happiness of children and young people
l. non-statutory bodies
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ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL YOUTH WORK
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