National Youth Service Strategy intended to identify actions that will drive the Youth Service forward from 2007-2011.

An introduction to the district approach. Account of a presentation about the project undertaken by seven European partners to explore the potential of a district approach to education disadvantage. Provides brief background to the project, the issues identified by the partners, and the conclusions reached as to the best approach to be adopted in dealing with those issues.

Shorter summary of a lengthy and detailed report on the Ely Youth and Community Project arising from evaluation of its work during a two and a half year research study. The report aims to highlight the issues concerning policy, practice, provision and research which appear to be the most central messages to be shared with the wider field. It is hoped that this report will still provoke serious discussion and thought amongst policy makers, practitioners and students alike (and indeed anyone concerned with working with young people) from both within and outside the youth and community field. The research was prompted both by demands from fieldworkers in Ely and by a wider concern within Wales over a number of years about the need to develop more collaborative inter-agency approaches to working with young people and the community.

Text of speech by Minister for Education Wales (Jane Davidson) to national CYWU conference held in Plymouth where she outlined the National Assembly for Wales' plans to improve services for young people through the policy 'Extending Entitlement'.