Primary Legislation and Policy Information
Education Order (1986)
Requirements for the statutory provision of Youth Services were set out in the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986. The duties it placed on the five regional Education and Library Boards transferred to the Education Authority in April 2015. These duties are to secure the provision of adequate facilities for recreational, social, physical, cultural and Youth Service activities and for ancillary services to education.
Priorities for Youth (2013)
Priorities for Youth, published in October 2013, sets out the positive contribution that Youth Services can play in achieving the Department of Education’s vision that every young person can achieve to his or her full potential at each stage of his and her development.
Children and YoungPeople Strategy 2020-2030
The Strategy for Children and Young People 2020-2030 is the overarching Strategy from which will flow a variety of cross-departmental, multi-agency plans and more detailed topic-specific strategies and programmes.
The Strategy sits within the context of the United Nations international human rights conventions including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the rights of children and young people with disabilities which are encompassed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Northern Ireland Executive’s Programme for Government; the Children’s Services Co-operation Act (Northern Ireland) 2015; and the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.
