EXPECT Youth’s core objectives are to:

• Inform and contribute to an ongoing strategic vision for local children’s and youth services, in collaboration with statutory partners;
• Support the continued availability of an effective and sustainable universal local youth offer.
• Act as a broker to secure, deliver and distribute public and charitable funding, increasing the overall amount of local investment in children’s and youth services;
• Capacity build neighbourhood level voluntary organisations, including managing a dedicated Quality Mark scheme, to improve the range and quality of youth services;
• Promote best practice and innovation in children’s and youth services, better utilising community assets to reach and engage more young people;
• Act as a single gateway for all information on local children’s and youth services;  Contribute to the fulfilment of wider local priorities and strategies set by local authorities and other agencies with overall responsibility for children’s and youth services.