National Listening Exercise for the Opinions of Young People

The Government is creating a new ten-year National Youth Strategy to tackle the challenges for this generation of young people and ensure that every young person can thrive.

The National Youth Strategy will bring power back to young people and their communities and improve  youth focused services, moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach from Government.

To give young people an opportunity to feed into the strategy’s development the government launched a “national listening exercise” on 5 March 2025.  It described this as a period of consultation that would take the form of an online survey as well as physical events such as peer-led focus groups called ‘democracy cafes’, and workshop sessions. The survey will close on 16 April 2025.