1. Social dimension recently: Youth Guarantee, Governmental Program and Youth Act Anu Gretschel, Senior researcher, PhD. Finnish Youth Research Network The History of youth work in Europe and its relevance for today’s youth work policy Malta, 21st-23rd September 2016

2. Youth guarantee
Every young person under the age of 25, and every recently graduated person under the age of 30 is offered a place for work, a work try-out, a study place, a place at a workshop, or rehabilitation placement no later than three months after registering as unemployed. (

3. “Finland's youth guarantee serves as one example for the EU's recommendation of a youth guarantee for all member states.” ( see also European Union 2012, 2013).

4. Has the Youth Guarantee changed the idea what is youth work
Has the Youth Guarantee changed the idea what is youth work? Youth Act Amendments in 2010: - Cross-sectoral cooperation - Outreach youth work: The purpose of outreach youth services is to reach a young person in need of support and help him or her to find services that will promote his or her growth and independence and his or her access to education and to the labour market. - Supply of information for outreach youth work

5. Analysing Youth Guarantee: “Youth Guarantee in everyday life and politics” -pamfhlet

6. →Challenges raised by many of the writers
Decreasing amount of job vacancies
→degree after degree -effect
→ inherent accuse of young people/“You have done enough.”
2. Role of social, health and youth work services
3. Insufficient services (migration, distances)
4. Quality of the services
5. Match of competences gained in education to those needed in working life
6. Understanding the citizenship in terms of training and employment only
7. Gender, minority, life situation and -style blindness
8. Activating by sanctioning

7. ”Carrying out the Youth Guarantee has been disturbed by the bad economic situation so that all objectives connected to youth employment have not been reached.” (Report of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy 19/2015.)

8. “Youth guarantee continues as one of Government's key projects… …The youth guarantee will be developed into a model in which responsibility for a young person in need of support is allocated to a single place... (News in youth guarantee webpages)

9. One-Stop Guidance Centres (Mirja Määttä)
One-Stop Guidance Centres are low threshold service points for young people
Bring together public employment services, social and health services, educational institutions, youth services, outreach youth work and the third sector
Build also cooperation with the local companies / employers for promoting youth employment opportunities in local areas

10. Governmental program 2015-2019: reducing norms
and regulation from local level
New Youth Act in the process, ( ?)
Youth work belongs to the duties of local authority
…offer of premises and services for young people according to
what has been considered in local level (…when aims are fulfilled)
Youth participation
Support of having a hobby and to act in the civil society
Equality, Rights, Quality, Societal Impact
Outreach youth work is as regulated as earlier, to organise it is not oblicated

11. Concluding words Youth work is to have aims, but left them in some degree open. Question to Juha: the youth work done in the context of Youth Guarantee, in what level it can actually be called youth work?

12. For more:
Anu Gretschel, Kari Paakkunainen, Anne-Mari Souto & Leena Suurpää (eds.) (2014) Youth Guarantee in Everyday Life and Politics in the Finnish Context. Helsinki: Finnish Youth Research Society. Forewords in English, see European Union (2012) memo from Commission about „Youth employment: Commission proposes package of measures – frequently asked questions.“

13. European Union (2013) Council Recommendation on establishing a Youth Guarantee (2013/C 120/01) Finnish Youth Act 2006/amendments (New Youth Act is in the process ) For geographical information of Finland, e.g. population density, see:

14. Youth guarantee in Finland http://www. nuorisotakuu