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Aiming High - the Ten Year Strategy for Young People

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Aiming High for Young People - 3 years on - download in full.

This document outlines the achievements so far against the three main Aiming High principles: Empowerment; Access and inclusion; Capacity and quality. It also reiterates the case for focusing on the development of social and emotional skills through participation in positive activities.

It sets out how the Government intends to support local authorities to sustain services for all young people and to make the best use of the funding available and ensure they reach out to more teenagers in need. It also discusses how important changes to services for young people will affect the future delivery of the commitments in Aiming high.

Aiming High for Young People: the ten year strategy

The government published its ten-year strategy for young people, Aiming High for Young People: a ten year strategy for positive activities, (AHYP), in July 2007, setting out a strategy to improve leisure-time opportunities, activities and support services for young people in England.

The strategy sets out a series of reforms based around three themes: empowerment, access and quality. The NYA is working with the DCSF and stakeholders on the implementation of some of the 55 commitments in the strategy.

The Aiming High for Young People: a ten year strategy for positive activities Implementation Plan was published in March 2008 and sets out arrangements for implementing the strategy, highlights progress to date and the key actions which will be taken over the following 12 months.

Read the Ten Year strategy document in full >>