R1 Assess the progress that young people make in developing soft skills, such as confidence, social skills, and self-esteem, and in improving their literacy and numeracy skills
R2 Ensure that all services have a dedicated education, employment or training co-ordinator
R3 Ensure that young people receive their entitlement to education in a timely manner, and report to management boards the length of time that young people are not in education, employment or training (NEET)
R4 Develop effective strategies that support young people in developing literacy and numeracy skills
R5 Evaluate the quality, effectiveness and impact of their service better to improve quality, and inform strategic planning to enhance education, employment or training opportunities for young people
R6 Extend the range of non-statutory members of the management board to include key local education and training providers
R1 Consult meaningfully with young people, so that they can influence the planning for and evaluation of the services available to them at a local level
R2 Provide safe spaces for young people in local areas so that they have access to services, and activities, which support their development as individuals, and as members of their local community
R3 Make sure that strategic plans have clear priorities informed by local intelligence for services that support young people
R4 Make sure that local authority departments and other bodies work in partnership to provide services for young people, which address their needs
Providers should:
R5 Make sure that their services enable young people to identify for themselves their interests, goals, and needs
R6 Work in partnership at a local and regional level to improve access to the range of services for young people
R7 Make sure that professional youth work standards and principles are used by workers in all youth support service projects
The Welsh Government should:
R8 Provide the policy basis through which youth work, as a way of working with young people, becomes embedded in all services
R9 Clarify the use of the terminology ‘youth work’, ‘youth service,’ and ‘youth support services’ in Wales in order to provide a universally understood language for policy development and delivery
R10 Establish ways of holding local authorities and their partners to account for the quality, range and types of youth support services they provide in their area
R11 Include the qualification, training and ongoing development of youth workers in the National Youth Work Strategy for Wales
R1 Challenge the full ability range and provide stimulating tasks that develop the resilience of learners
R2 Ensure that learners improve their writing in English and Welsh
R3 Have high expectations that all learners contribute orally especially in Welsh
R4 Improve pupils’ problem-solving skills in mathematics and in mathematics-numeracy
R5 Develop pupils’ higher-order reading skills in English, Welsh and mathematics and the Welsh Baccalaureate
R6 Improve boys’ performance in Welsh, English and the Welsh Baccalaureate
R7 Help more pupils to gain the highest grades in the Welsh Baccalaureate
R8 Provide better opportunities for pupils to develop their numeracy and ICT skills in the Welsh Baccalaureate
R9 Consider carefully their staffing and timetabling for the Welsh Baccalaureate and the status they place on the qualification
R10 Provide training for middle leaders to help them evaluate standards and teaching in their departments
R11 Work together better to ensure that they have legal, secure, and comprehensive arrangements for sharing information about learners’ prior attainments and to develop networks of professional practice
In addition:
R12 Schools should consider the breadth of their curriculum, including opportunities and encouragement to study English literature and Welsh literature
R13 Colleges should increase the number of learners resitting GCSE Welsh language
