Purpose of the Youth Service

The Youth Service:

· Creates opportunities to encourage young people to achieve their potential as empowered individuals and members of groups and communities

· Supports young people during the transition to adulthood

· Provides learning opportunities, which challenge young people to respond critically and creatively to their everyday experiences and to the wider world around them

· Promotes the influence of young people, their involvement in decision making and active citizenship

· Works closely with other organisations and agencies to provide high quality services to young people.

· identifies young people at risk, and provides youth workers with specialist knowledge, expertise and experience

· provides a safe, trusted and informal environment for young people, in which to deliver integrated services

· provides youth workers who may be best placed to act as a young person's personal adviser

· provides community based youth work that is culturally appropriate and diverse, and encourages access and engagement of hardest to reach groups including those from black and ethnic minority populations