Work on the strategy, called Good News for Young People, started in September 2001 and will now be implemented across the Church of England's 13,000 parishes from this month.
As well as reforming the way in which the church carries out its youth work across the UK, it addresses the need for church leaders to adapt and learn from young people in order to remain relevant. It also proposes that the church's network of 43 diocesan youth officers form closer partnerships with local authority services, voluntary youth organisations and public sector agencies such as Connexions.
Peter Ball, national youth officer at the Church of England's education division and a board member of The National Youth Agency, said the Church had recognised that it had been recruiting significantly more youth workers over the past five years.
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