Question follow-through · 26022

Youth Workers: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a revocable license to practice for youth workers.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
27 Jan 2025
Answer
30 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a revocable license to practice for youth workers.

  2. 27 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    DCMS funds the National Youth Agency to maintain a voluntary register of JNC Level 6 qualified youth workers and provide support to youth workers and organisations around safeguarding and risk management via their Safeguarding Hub.In November, this govern...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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