National Awards Process

The NYA Quality Mark is primarily a self-assessment tool, which can be used by any organisation as a means to quality improvement. However, there was a demand from those involved in its development for a National Award for those organisations which reach the required standard.

Achieving this would bring prestige to youth work organisations, help with their relationships with other organisations, support funding bids and commissioning, and celebrate good youth work practice with peers, staff, partners and young people.

Having worked through the self-assessment framework, an Established score will mean eligibility for the National Award. This means that an organisation must have gained an Established or Advanced score in each of the 33 indicators in each of the 11 standards, therefore achieving the standard.

An organisation eligible through an Established position, and intending to seek accreditation of the Award would then need to register and prepare their self-assessment according to the National Award Guidance (available to subscribers on request). The assessment would then be forwarded and checked by The NYA and assigned to a Quality Mark consultant who will act as the assessor in the accreditation process.

What the assessor is looking for from a National Award submission

Bryan Merton, one of the Quality Mark assessors, has put together an information sheet for organisations that want to achieve The NYA’s Quality Mark National Award. It is full of very useful details about what sort of evidence should be included in a self-assessment submission and how best to demonstrate the evidence you are presenting.

What the assessor is looking for from a National Award submission

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