Professor Tony Chapman, John Bateman (UK Youth), Diane Evans (National Youth Agency).

The Aiming High for Young People strategy set an ambitious goal to develop a skilled and confident workforce which can deliver the most effective practice to improve young people’s outcomes.

Government recognised that the third sector has an important role to play in the delivery of services to young people, but acknowledged that involving the Third Sector in meeting this agenda may present particular challenges.

This programme of research aimed to find out what challenges the third sector faced and make concrete proposals for the training and accreditation of the youth sector work force. The final report was submitted to CWDC in 2009.