Our publications are aimed at providers, planners and funders of youth information, advice, counselling and support services.
They encompass a wide variety of topics, setting out evidence and providing practical guidance and tools to use within organisations.
All publications below are available as free pdf downloads, to order hard copies click here
Counselling
 Breaking Down the Barriers
By Catherine Wilson, Youth Access, 2001/02.
An award-winning three part series which analyses existing mental health provision for young people and makes recommendations based on the gaps and barriers found in the voluntary and statutory sectors
To download Breaking down the Barriers: Key Findings, click here
To download Breaking down the Barriers: Case Studies, click here
To download Breaking down the Barriers: A Strategy in Development, click here |
 Paths to Partnership, Key Findings
By Foluke Taylor Mohammad and Catherine Wilson, Youth Access 2003
This report summarises the findings from a series of in-depth interviews with young people's counselling services, young people, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Adult Mental Health Services. The findings will be used to inform the development of a national training programme to improve the quality and effectiveness of counselling assessments.
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 Commissioning Counselling Services for Young People a Guide for Commissioners
By Dr. Cathy Street, Youth Access 2007
The aim of this guide is to assist commissioners charged with the responsibility for services for young people on how to commission counselling services. The guide illustrates how these services fit well with what is known about what works for young people, providing case study examples and the fit with government policy. |
 Commissioning Young People’s Counselling Services in YIACS a Toolkit for Managers and Fundraisers of Services.
Author Catherine Wilson. Youth Access 2007
The aim of the toolkit is to assist YIACS to integrate counselling provision in the planning and commissioning of local emotional and mental health services for young people. It provides busy managers of services with evidence and information to demonstrate to Children trusts and Health commissioners the YIACS contribution to local, national needs and targets. |
 Access to Counselling Key Findings Briefing
by Catherine Wilson, Youth Access, 2005
The briefing provides an overview of an evaluation examining the relationship between Youth Information, Advice, Counselling and Support Services (YIACS) and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The key findings identify CAMHS commissioners’ expectations of YIACS and YIACS needs in approaching CAMHS commissioners. |
 Ensuring Accountability in the Counselling Process
By Karen Stott, 1997
This publication is aimed at youth counselling services that are thinking about or are already using volunteer counsellors to help deliver their service to young people. The publication offers a practical guide to some of the accountability issues arising from using volunteer counsellors and provides examples of current practice in the field. Each chapter highlights "key points" for further consideration by agencies. |
 Rights to Access: meeting young people’s needs for advice
By James Kenrick, Youth Access, 2002.
Sets out all the available evidence on needs, advice-seeking behaviour and barriers to access, as well as making recommendations for improving provision.
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 Locked Out: Young people’s housing and homelessness needs and the impact of good advice
By James Kenrick, Youth Access, August 2007
A Youth Access report detailing evidence of young people’s substantial needs for housing and homelessness advice and the cost of their marginalisation from services. |
 Young People’s Social Welfare Needs and the Impact of Good Advice: Issues Paper
By James Kenrick, Youth Access, 2007.
This paper summarises a variety of research evidence on young people’s needs for advice, the impact of problems, the difference made by advice, access, funding and workforce issues. ESSENTIAL READING FOR ANYONE PLANNING, FUNDING OR PROVIDING YOUTH ADVICE SERVICES |
 Young People and Civil Justice: Findings from the 2004 English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey
By the Legal Services Research Centre, published by Youth Access, 2007.
Key research report covering young people’s social welfare advice needs, impact of problems and advice seeking behaviour. ESSENTIAL READING FOR ANYONE PLANNING, FUNDING OR PROVIDING YOUTH ADVICE SERVICES |
 Rights to Access Project Interim Evaluation Report
Michael Bell Associates for Youth Access, 2007.
This report provides a summary of the interim findings of Youth Access’ Rights to Access Project, and contains valuable evidence on how young people want legal advice delivered to them, key success criteria for developing a Youth access Law Centre-style service and evidence on the impact of targeted legal advice from outcomes monitoring and a longitudinal study. ESSENTIAL READING FOR ANYONE PLANNING, FUNDING OR PROVIDING YOUTH ADVICE SERVICES |
 The Youth Access Quality Standards for youth information, advice, counselling and support services, which include self assessment materials to help agencies build on their strengths while identifying areas for improvement - free to organisational members only, to request a hard copy click here. |
 Getting it Right
Youth Access, 2001
This brief guide to Youth Access's Quality Standards will be helpful to statutory bodies, charitable trusts and other funders who want to obtain best practice in the youth information, advice, counselling and support services which they are seeking to fund. Whilst the guide is primarily directed at funders, it will also be of relevance to policy-makers and commissioners. It does not replace the need for existing providers of these services to obtain the full manual.
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 Building User Involvement
By Carolyn Mumby, 2001.
This guide is aimed at helping young people’s information, advice, counselling and support services explore user involvement. It focuses on user involvement as a Continuum from communication and consultation, through to more active participation in delivering and managing services. It draws on the experiences of young people themselves and colleagues from within the field in order to outline the potential benefits and pitfalls of various types of involvement. Finally, it describes ways of ensuring that the involvement of young people is more that a passing fad, but something that is consistent and sustainable. |
 Youthstat
By James Kenrick, 2002
Youthstat is a sophisticated statistical classification system developed by Youth Access to assist agencies in the recording, monitoring and evaluation of their work with young people. It comprises comprehensive schedules of: enquiry and presenting issue categories user profile monitoring categories work profile monitoring categories Youthstat has been designed to enable agencies to tailor the stats schedules to meet their precise and unique needs, however complex or simple they may be.
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 Getting Started
Youth Access, 1998
This guide is a useful starting point for anyone wishing to get involved in setting up a youth information, advice and counselling service. It attempts to raise many of the issues associated with this specialist form of provision, such as steering groups, gathering evidence of need, staffing, information systems and evaluation.
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