The strategy includes a range of measures but it is the commitment to review youth work statutory guidance and "fully embed" the National Citizen Service (NCS) into local youth provision that has the potential to redefine how youth services are delivered.
Revisiting the Education Act 1996 is long overdue. The act requires authorities "so far as is reasonably practicable, secure for qualifying young persons access to sufficient educational and recreational activities which are for the improvement of their wellbeing". Statutory guidance issued in 2008 added more detail, including setting out the age range and types of issues that services for young people need to cater for.
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