The Youth Policy Response Group (YPRG)
IARS' restructured Forum, the Youth Policy Response Group, is a focused policy response group. The main aim of the Group is to respond to law and policy reform as it happens throughout the year. Focused meetings take place on an ad hoc basis with the purpose of debating or developing responses to changes in law and policy. Forum members are able to attend only those meetings that fall within their area of interest and, or expertise.
About the YPRG
At end of 2009, following a piece of research carried out by IARS into the impact of the recession on the youth-led sector, IARS established the London Youth-led Sector Policy Forum. One of the recommendations of this report was that young people and youth-led groups need a platform to influence policy. The Forum was set up as a response with the main aim of promoting the youth-led sector to policy makers. Forum members contributed to a number of consultation responses and policy documents, putting the youth-led sector in London on the policy map. The Forum was transformed in 2011 to accommodate the needs of the youth-led sector, facing increasing pressure to deliver more work for less.
Member organisations
Organisations that have attended Youth Policy Response Group meetings include:
- The Foyer Federation
- The British Youth Council
- The Anne Frank Trust
- The Citizenship Foundation
- Envision
- The Women's Resource Centre
- Stonewall
- The Howard League for Penal Reform
- ChangeMakers
- Mentor UK and the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services
Youth Policy Response Group Meetings and Policy work
- 5th September 2011 - Positive for Youth
- 6th June 2011 - Building a Fairer Britain: Reform of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission
- 11th April 2011 - National Curriculum Review: Call for Evidence
