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While it is clear quality youth work makes a real difference to young lives, this can sometimes be hard to demonstrate. This is in part why the Welsh government launched a quality mark scheme, also designed to provide a consistent set of standards and definition of quality across the sector in Wales.
The scheme was initially piloted with four youth work organisations over 18 months. In June 2016, the contract to roll out the scheme was awarded to specialist children's and youth services consultants Atkin Associates, founded by Louise Atkin.
With separate inspections of youth services a thing of the past, the scheme was about having a national benchmark, says Atkin, a former inspector of youth services for Ofsted. Deep cuts to youth services across the border in England were also a factor, she says.
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