The National Youth Agency - Quality Exchange

Quality Exchange

The aims of the Quality Exchange were to offer participants an opportunity to hear more about quality systems tailor made for youth organisations and services for young people, and to exchange ideas about assuring quality in youth organisations.

Raising the Standard

This publication has been produced following the successful Quality Exchange event that was held in May 2007. This is a joint publication from The NYA and NCVYS and it acts as a mini-guide designed to provide information and guidance on quality assurance systems for the youth work sector and raise the profile of such systems with policy makers, funders and commissioners.

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Raising the Standards – a guide to Quality Systems in the Youth Sector

Quality Exchange workshop - May 2007

The Quality Exchange workshop, held at The NYA’s offices in Leicester on 30 May 2007, was a partnership event jointly facilitated by The NYA and the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) and funded by the VCS Engage programme.

The event:

Showcased three tried and tested quality assurance systems of relevance to the youth sector and explained how they fit together (the systems were The NYA’s YSQM, and Hear by Right and NCVYS’ Sound Systems);
Enabled participants to explore these systems in detail and discuss how they might be relevant to their organisations;
Provided an opportunity for the sector to network and share good practice around quality assurance systems;
Explored ways in which the Quality Exchange can be taken forward, including consulting on what a “quality mini-guide” might contain.

34 participants from a variety of voluntary, maintained and independent youth sector organisations attended the event.