Youth Arts Programme Advocacy Work

One of NYCI’s key roles is to represent young people’s interests and to shape and influence legislation and emerging policy and programme development initiatives that may impact on the lives of young people. Our ongoing communication with our membership base, youth workers, volunteers, arts practitioners and young people themselves together with our experience in leading the Youth Arts programme ensures our policy and programme advice is strongly grounded in evidence and as well-informed as possible and the strategic review findings supports NYCI’s key role as an independent and trusted voice in youth arts and youth work spheres.

Among the activity undertaken recently has been a submission to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on the theme The Arts in Ireland Today from NYCI’s perspective, active watching brief on policy development and implementation in youth and arts sectors, contribution to NoChild2020 and the development of a Youth Arts Forum testing NYCI’s principles of high quality youth arts from a young person’s perspective.