Helen Miller, Wales Youth Agency 2003

The Wales Youth Agency convened two seminars to explore the role of Town and Community Councils in developing services for young people and was enthused by the diversity of provision. It undertook to prepare this briefing document to disseminate information about developments and to enable other Councils to establish their own provision.

This paper is intended to provide an overview of the extent of youth homelessness in Wales; give an insight to the experience of homeless young people and importantly give some ideas of how the youth service can become involved in the development of provision and services.

It includes:
• Defining youth homelessness
• The extent and nature of youth homelessness in Wales
• Housing options for young people
• The role of the youth service
• Housing organisations in Wales

Exploration of the merits of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) programme for the Youth Service in Wales.

A Proposed Structure for the Wales Youth Work Partnership This paper is written for the Management Committee of the Partnership as a follow up to the paper entitled "Towards a Work Programme for the Wales Youth Work Partnership". It suggests a structure through which the Partnership may pursue its aim to provide an infrastructure for the coordination and development of youth work practice throughout the voluntary and statutory youth service in Wales. 

Paper which provides a community profile of a group of young people living in a small South Wales valley community, taking into account statistical information and the views, hopes and aspirations of the young people and key adults.