Leicester City Council set up the Lifelong Learning and Community Development Division in 2001, following an extensive process of review and reorganisation. The Assistant Director was appointed in June 2001 to lead a Division comprised of Children’s, Youth, Adult Learning Services and Community Development. The Principal Youth Officer was appointed in September 2001.

Leicester City Council approved its first unifying Youth Work Strategy for the city in July 2002. The document went through several draft stages prior to its final approval at Cabinet in July. In March 2002 it was sent to a wide range of stakeholders, described in the section on Working in Partnership, and was quite considerably amended as a result.

The strategy brought together national drivers and priorities, local authority priorities and an analysis of the “current shape” of the Youth Service against the demands of these two sets of priorities, within the context of a Strategic Community Learning Plan for the Lifelong learning Division.

View full copy of the Youth Service Plan below.