The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) has developed the Youth Work Sector Expert Group in partnership with the National Youth Agency (NYA) and the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services (Chyps).
It has been established to give the sector a more pro-active role in lobbying government and leading debates over workforce issues.
According to the group's terms of reference, it will promote the role of youth work in the community and its contribution to early intervention. It will also promote practices that will ensure the recruitment, retention and training of youth workers at all levels.
Heather Stevens, director of programme delivery at the NYA, whose chief executive is Fiona Blacke, admitted that the sector's key bodies have not always seen eye to eye. But she said: "There has been an alignment of the planets against the current political backdrop".
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