A report examined whether a robust case could be made for the cost-effectiveness of youth advice, particularly as a mental health intervention. It said that the combination of benefit cuts and rising homelessness could over-burden National Health Service budgets unless massive cuts to voluntary sector advice services were reversed.
Source: Nigel Balmer and Pascoe Pleasence, The Legal Problems and Mental Health Needs of Youth Advice Service Users: The case for advice, Youth Access
Links: Report | Briefing | Youth Access press release | Inside Housing report
Date: 2012-Dec
A report called for the age at which young people started paying full transport fares to be consistently set at 18 for all transport operators across England, and for the introduction of a national concessionary scheme to provide a discounted bus travel card for those who were aged under 18.
Source: Youth Select Committee, Transport and Young People, British Youth Council
Links: Report | BYC press release
Date: 2012-Nov
A new book proposed a 'cultural revolution' within youth work.
Source: Doug Nicholls, For Youth Workers and Youth Work: Speaking out for a better future, Policy Press
Links: Summary
Date: 2012-Sep
An outcomes framework for young people's services was published, designed to support understanding and measurement of the connexions between intrinsic personal and social development outcomes and longer-term extrinsic outcomes.
Source: An Outcomes Framework for Young People's Services, Young Foundation
Links: NCYVS press release
Notes: The Young Foundation subsequently removed the link to the document. In July 2012 it published: Bethia McNeil, Neil Reeder, and Julia Rich, A Framework of Outcomes for Young People (also published simultaneously under the same title by the Department of Education).
Date: 2012-Mar
The government responded to a report by a committee of MPs on youth services.
Source: Services for Young People: The Government Response: Government response to the Committee's Sixth Report, Tenth Special Report (Session 2010-12), HC 1736, House of Commons Education Select Committee, TSO
Links: Response
Notes: MPs report part 1 | MPs report part 2 (June 2011)
Date: 2012-Jan
The coalition government published a 5-year youth and community sport strategy for England. New school-based sports clubs would be established with links to one or more sport national governing bodies. Funding would be made available to open up school sport facilities for wider public use.
Source: Creating a Sporting Habit for Life: A new youth sport strategy, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Links: Strategy | Hansard | DCMS press release | AOC press release | BBC report
Date: 2012-Jan