In its response, The NYA calls for any framework to seek to bring volunteering into young people's everyday lives and encourage them to identify and take action to address community problems, rather than focusing on matching young people to pre-identified opportunities.
"This is an important opportunity to endorse and celebrate the breadth of models and activity encompassed under the heading of 'volunteering'," the response says. "We believe that the national framework should therefore be based on an understanding of the variety of ways in which young people are currently involved in voluntary activity and the approaches, factors and personal circumstances that are likely to encourage or discourage their involvement."
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