The English National Youth Arts Network (Enyan) is being set up by Artswork, an independent youth arts development agency funded by Arts Council England Southeast.
A web site (www.enyan. co.uk) will provide news, jobs and training information, and the network will provide help with professional development, two youth arts courses a year in each region, and regional development of youth arts. It will act as a national forum for advocacy and lobbying for the sector.
Claire Wilkins, assistant director of Artswork, said: "Youth arts is increasingly being used to help achieve government targets."
The network will take the form of a national steering group supported by local consultation panels based in each of Arts Council England's nine regions. The panels will be made up of arts practitioners who will feed in their views to the national network. Members of Enyan will include The National Youth Agency, Arts Council England, UK Youth, the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers, the Youth Justice Board, Youth Music, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department for Education and Skills.
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