You're Welcome materials

Quality Criteria

You're Welcome quality criteriaThe quality criteria cover ten topic areas:

  • accessibility
  • publicity
  • confidentiality and consent
  • the environment
  • staff training, skills, attitudes and values
  • joined-up working
  • monitoring and evaluation, and involvement of young people
  • health issues for adolescents
  • sexual and reproductive health services
  • child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

The criteria are based on examples of effective local practice.

You're Welcome toolkit

You're Welcome front coverThis toolkit will help you assess how young people friendly your services are.

You can also download the scoring sheets in a Word format.

You can also download the You're Welcome documents from the Department of Health website.

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