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Youth Matters

We aim to give all young people the chance of a positive future by helping them to learn in ways that motivate and stretch them and enable them to achieve; engage in positive developmental activities; make informed choices about their lives and benefit from high-quality, targeted support before problems escalate.

Youth Matters Green Paper (July 2005)
Youth Matters: Next steps (March 2006)

The vision set out in Youth Matters is being implemented through a number of innovative projects and approaches. Follow the links below to find out more.

• What is Youth Matters? - Background information and context for Youth Matters.
• Targeted youth support toolkit - Targeted youth support arrangements will be implemented in all LAs by March 2008. 
• Youth Opportunity Fund and Youth Capital Fund - The funds aim to empower young people and give them more choice and influence over provision and facilities. 
• Things to do, places to go - Outlines new legislation containing duties on LAs to secure young people's access to sufficient positive activities and to provide information on positive activities.
• Financial support for 16- to 19-year-olds - Covers a number of measures designed to support and encourage young people to stay in training or learning. 
• Connexions - Funding and responsibility for delivery of services will pass to 150 LAs working through children's trust arrangements by 2008.
• Information, advice and guidance - From April 2008 LAs will assume overall accountability for the quality of young people's information, advice and guidance.
• Volunteering - Following the Russell Commission report on youth action and engagement, the Government has set up a new charity, v, to support and enable young volunteers.

Further documents
Targeted youth support: A guide (March 2007)
Guide offering practical support to implement targeted youth support in local areas.
Bulletin on positive activities (October 2006)
Publicising positive activities (October 2006)
Guidance on the provision of information to young people regarding positive activities.

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Last updated on 30/04/2009