The strategy will form part of the current Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). In its 35-page submission to the CSR consultation The NYA calls for an approach of "progressive universalism" that will allow for up to half of all young people to take up opportunities through youth work.
Some 60 per cent of this would be through open-access facilities, 40 per cent through more targeted work or street-based work.
The cost for such an expansion is put at less than 1 a day per head of the 13 to 19 population.
The submission adds that The NYA's work with young people had made it clear what they wanted from youth provision - someone to talk to about their lives and aspirations, safe places where they belong, opportunities to improve skills and confidence and have fun and activities provided locally to them in the evenings, at weekends and during the school holidays.
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