Wales Youth Work Partnership Historical Background The origin of the Wales Youth Work Partnership can be traced to a number of initiatives which took place between 1977 and 1986. Following these developments the Welsh Office invited the Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC), the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS), the Council for Education and Training Jn Youth and Community Work (CETYCW), and the National Youth Bureau (NYB), to put forward a submission suggesting ways in…

An initiative to form a Wales Youth Forum has been in existence since March 1986; this paper provides a young person's personal view of how the forum could be developed. 

In November 1978 a one-day conference was held in Llandrindod Wells to identify ways in which services to the youth affairs field in Wales could be developed including the contribution of existing services offered by National Youth Bureau. This led to this proposal and an application for funding to the Welsh Office for the establishment of a Welsh youth affairs unit.
 

Report by the Policy Unit of the National Assembly for Wales setting out their policy on services for young people. Considers the views of young people, lifelong learning context, information services, youth service and how all services should provide a network of support.

Wales Youth Agency 1995