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The National Youth Agency: Helping to understand 14-19 agenda

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The National Youth Agency's (NYA) Learning and Achievement Team has put together a series of documents designed to support managers and practitioners in understanding and interpreting the rapidly developing 14-19 education reform agenda.

Educational reform is part of the government's strategy to ensure that young people achieve and succeed in all aspects in their lives. In February 2005 the 14-19 Education and Skills white paper began the process of educational reform which will introduce a whole new landscape of education and training provision for young people.

The place of non-formal learning has been secured both legally and in implementation planning within the new structures but The NYA believes there is some way to go before the concepts and practices this includes are widely understood and accepted. The Agency's view is that "all youth work is non-formal learning, but not all non-formal learning is youth work".

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