You’re Welcome Overview

Regional Youth Work Unit—North East (RYWU-NE) works across the
North East of England to promote and support the development of youth
work. The RYWU-NE is a focal point for both statutory and voluntary
youth sector services to share information, highlight best practice, and
co-ordinate the development of youth work and youth services. Youth
participation work is a focal point of work within the Unit including the
coordination of the Regional You’re Welcome Leads and Participation
Workers Network.
The You’re Welcome quality criteria set out principles that will help health
services to become young people friendly. They aim to improve the
acceptability, accessibility and quality of services for young people. You’re
Welcome is a way to enable young people to access appropriate health
services which meet their needs and to engage young people, laying the
foundations for them to be lifelong effective health service users.
The North East has a regionally based network to support consistent
implementation, supporting local areas to apply the You’re Welcome
quality criteria for making health services young people friendly. This
arrangement encourages PCTs and Children’s Trusts to implement locally
owned, sustainable arrangements for You’re Welcome.
The participation of children and young people is at the very heart of
You’re Welcome. In order for services to achieve You’re Welcome, they
must be able to demonstrate and provide evidence that they have in
place systematic arrangements to enable the voice and influence of
young people over services that are delivered. Young people in the North
East have been involved in training health care providers, undertaken
inspection/verification visits and participated in regional quality
assurance and moderation processes.