The Government is taking a wide range of actions that will help to deliver the Positive for Youth vision.
The key commitments include:
- Empowering young people by enabling them to inspect and report on local youth services and to help ‘youth proof’ government policy
- Funding national helpline and website services to support and provide advice to parents of teenagers, and a programme to support the most troubled families
- Funding improved brokerage between businesses and projects for young people
- Completing the programme of 63 Myplace youth centres to act as hubs for a wide range of services in disadvantaged areas. Also developing a national approach to exploiting the potential of these centres to be hubs for transforming local services led by communities and local businesses
- Piloting the National Citizen Service - bringing together 16-year-olds from all backgrounds for a demanding personal and social development experience and opportunity for social action in their communities
- Directly funding 18 voluntary-sector programmes at a national level which aim to transform the lives of young people to generate lessons for the future;
- Funding a small number of youth innovation zones to test radical new system-wide approaches to involving all local partners in supporting young people
- Publishing annually a new set of national measures to demonstrate progress in improving outcomes for young people.
