Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 15 June 2011.
Terms of Reference
Summary
The Committee's inquiry
1 Introduction
Terminology: the 'Youth Service' and youth services
Youth work
Youth policy under the previous and current administrations
2 The purpose and reach of services
'Universal' provision?
The relationship between open-access and targeted services
A focus on targeted services
The case for open-access services
3 Identifying successful services: measuring value and impact
Services are valued but evidence of their impact is lacking
Research studies
Difficulties in assessing service outcomes
Designing appropriate outcome measures
4 Service provision: funding, commissioning and payment by results
Public funding of youth services
Non-public sources of funding
Cuts to youth services
Commissioning youth services
The Government's intentions and local authority practice
Payment by results
5 The youth services workforce
Size and composition
Skills, qualifications and training
Continuing professional development
Licence to practise
6 Youth volunteering and the National Citizen Service
Volunteering by young people
Young people's democratic participation
National Citizen Service (NCS)
The programme
Good principle, bad timing?
Cost to participants
Funding National Citizen Service
Annex: Visit to Berlin, 15-16 February 2011
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of printed written evidence
List of additional written evidence
List of unprinted written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament
Oral and written evidence 26 January 2011 9 February 2011 9 March 2011 30 March 2011 4 May 2011 Written evidence Additional written evidence
9 February 2011
9 March 2011
30 March 2011
4 May 2011
Written evidence
Additional written evidence
