Last week, the government published a draft version of the Quality Standards for Positive Activities, which aims to help commissioners and providers ensure they are offering the right types of activities and are reaching out to a broad range of young people.
The document states that the performance of the provider against the standards could feed into inspections such as the Comprehensive Area Assessment. Last year, many in the youth work community criticised the decision to drop separate youth work inspections.
Dillon Hughes, secretary for the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services (Chyps), said: "Chyps would welcome any scrutiny of the work of its members and we're confident the contribution of positive activities to the achievement of wider policy agendas for young people will be recognised through this scrutiny."
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