6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
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Spa<strong>in</strong> No nati<strong>on</strong>al system<br />
of report<strong>in</strong>g<br />
50<br />
Associati<strong>on</strong> Census<br />
of the M<strong>in</strong>istry of<br />
Labour and Social<br />
Policy<br />
Spanish <strong>Youth</strong><br />
Council Census of<br />
Associati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Data from the<br />
Nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
Employment<br />
Institute (2007)<br />
Injuve Report <strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>Youth</strong> Informati<strong>on</strong><br />
Services 2006<br />
The ma<strong>in</strong> reas<strong>on</strong>s for the situati<strong>on</strong> described here are:<br />
� Political impact:<br />
No data about youth<br />
work <strong>in</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>s<br />
No c<strong>on</strong>cept of youth<br />
work<br />
Scattered<br />
resp<strong>on</strong>sibility<br />
between different<br />
levels of<br />
adm<strong>in</strong>istrati<strong>on</strong><br />
No comm<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>in</strong>dicators<br />
o that there is no political requirement for report<strong>in</strong>g as youth work is not a<br />
priority and <strong>in</strong>deed sometimes not even recognised as a professi<strong>on</strong>;<br />
o that the resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities for youth work are scattered between different<br />
m<strong>in</strong>istries and there is no cross-sectoral cooperati<strong>on</strong> <strong>in</strong> report<strong>in</strong>g and<br />
o that youth work is performed and f<strong>in</strong>anced at local level, so that no need is felt<br />
for a nati<strong>on</strong>al report.<br />
� F<strong>in</strong>ancial impact:<br />
o that <strong>on</strong>ly publicly funded projects are registered, as spend<strong>in</strong>g of the public<br />
budget has to be duly adm<strong>in</strong>istered and m<strong>on</strong>itored.<br />
� Cultural impact:<br />
o that there is a lack of rout<strong>in</strong>e for report<strong>in</strong>g am<strong>on</strong>g voluntary organisati<strong>on</strong>s as<br />
they are not participat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> report<strong>in</strong>g and<br />
o that some countries lack the traditi<strong>on</strong> of mak<strong>in</strong>g fund<strong>in</strong>g structures<br />
transparent.<br />
� Professi<strong>on</strong>al impact:<br />
o that the c<strong>on</strong>cept of youth work is vague and thus comm<strong>on</strong> <strong>in</strong>dicators are<br />
miss<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
Analys<strong>in</strong>g the various nati<strong>on</strong>al report<strong>in</strong>g systems reveals <strong>in</strong>dividual examples of good<br />
practice approaches. These examples were found <strong>in</strong> c<strong>on</strong>texts where, <strong>in</strong> the absence of<br />
overall data, <strong>in</strong>dividual stakeholders were put <strong>in</strong> charge of gather<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong> or decided to<br />
become active <strong>in</strong> this respect <strong>on</strong> their own <strong>in</strong>itiative.<br />
In Est<strong>on</strong>ia and Ireland, the central state <strong>in</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong>s and authorities resp<strong>on</strong>sible for the<br />
implementati<strong>on</strong> of nati<strong>on</strong>al youth work policies are also the organisati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>in</strong> charge of central<br />
data collecti<strong>on</strong> and process<strong>in</strong>g. It is therefore possible to keep track of nati<strong>on</strong>al and publicly<br />
funded measures.