Background information on Irish youth policy

Priority themes

• Better understanding of youth (provided in 2013)
• Voluntary activities (provided in 2012)
• Youth and the world (provided in 2013)

Results of seminars and studies organised by the EU-CoE youth partnership

• Country report on Youth work in Ireland (results of the study on socio-economic scope of Youth Work)

National report on volunteering used for the "Study on volunteering in Europe"

Assessment of the Economic Value of Youth Work (2012 by National Youth Council of Ireland and Indecon)

• Youth work in Ireland – Some historical reflections, by Maurice Devlin

• Using an annual study of 16-year olds to monitor and inform social change in Northern Ireland by Dirk Schubotz