What are the benefits of achieving a Youth Mark award?

Achieving a Youth Mark award will let people know that your organisation provides a high quality, young person centred service.

It will elevate your organisation's stature in the eyes of young service users, parents and carers, other organisations and potential funding agencies. 

Not only will it highlight the areas where your organisation provides excellent services, it will also identify service areas that could be improved; benefiting both yourselves and young people.

Gaining a Youth Mark award contributes to the "involving young people in service development and delivery" criteria contained in the Children's Act 2004 and Education Act 2002.

 It contributes to a variety of other inspection and quality assurance frameworks including:

• Every Child Matters Outcomes Framework
• EFQM Excellence Model for Public and Voluntary Sector
• Cabinet Office Charter Mark Standard
• Matrix Standard
• National Youth Agency Hear By Right
• Ofsted Common Inspection Framework for Inspecting Education and Training
• Joint Area Review
• Enhanced Inspection of Youth Services
• In schools, it supports curriculum delivery including the non-statutory framework for Personal, Social & Health Education and Citizenship Key Stages 3 & 4