Youth Access

It's A Rap!

02 November, 2005

Youth Access has been awarded £461,895 over three years from the Big Lottery Fund’s Strategic Grants Committee for a new Rights to Access Project (RAP). The aim of RAP is to improve and extend young people's access to quality legal rights-based advice services. Youth Access will be working to build the capacity of practitioners and organisations to work both individually and collectively to tackle the current gaps in access to high quality, young people-friendly services.

The project will build on the findings and recommendations contained in our acclaimed report ‘Rights To Access: meeting young people’s needs for advice’. Activities will include:

• developing the Youth Access Law Centre model
• evaluating existing legal advice projects targeting young people
• developing a new nation al youth advice training programme to develop practitioners’ competence in rights-based advice work
• developing resources, including good practice briefings, to support the mainstream advice sector in improving access for young people to their services
• increasing the evidence base of young people's advice needs to enable us to better represent and respond to policy developments impacting on young people's access to rights-based advice services

Youth Access will be recruiting staff in the Autumn and the RAP project is due to get underway around the turn of the year. For further information, email james@youthaccess.org.uk

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