The youth sector will undoubtedly remember 2007 as the year that the government sat up and took notice of young people. The 10-year youth strategy, Aiming High for Young People, was a major part of that, promising funding to the tune of £679 across the sector.
But five months on from the announcement, the fanfare over funding has died down and attention has shifted to exactly how the strategy should be put in place. In the New Year the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) will publish an implementation strategy to help those working in the youth sector put Aiming High into practice. Andrew McCully, director of the supporting children and young people's group in the DCSF, says the document should be available in the first couple of months of 2008. He is careful with the details but says there is a need to set out the DCSF's expectations for everyone involved in Aiming High.
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