The letter, from youth minister Margaret Hodge, listed four key measures against which youth service performance is to be evaluated. These include ensuring the youth service is in contact with 25 per cent of local 13- to 19-year-olds and that 15 per cent regularly participate.
The other measures follow a Government rethink of its suggestion in the Transforming Youth Work document that 60 per cent of young people participating in youth work should achieve accredited outcomes.
Instead, Hodge has set a new benchmark asking for 60 per cent of young people to achieve a recordable outcome and 30 per cent to gain accreditation.
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