The manifesto, being widely issued to coincide with the autumn's party political conferences, takes its starting point from the five outcomes outlined in Every Child Matters - being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and economic wellbeing.
Tom Wylie, chief executive of The NYA, said: "This manifesto seeks to highlight what matters to young people and to suggest how local and national government can support and work with young people to help them develop as healthy, responsible and empowered citizens."
Among its central messages to all politicians are that the starting point for all policy developments about young people should be young people and they are the experts on the needs of young people. Also that young people have particular and diverse needs and children or adult services are not always appropriate, and that youth services in both the statutory and voluntary sectors need to be resourced with the appropriate sustained infrastructure.
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