You may need a YAPA internal policy either:
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because it directly affects you, or
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to help develop your own agency's policies. You will have to make changes to suit your own circumstances and any legal requirements which apply to you. These policies are mainly administrative- and management-focussed. For sample policies on working with young people, see YAPA's Model Policies for working with young people.
Policies directly affecting young people and/or youth services and workers
Please contact YAPA if:
- you wish to clarify or exercise your rights under one of these policies
- you wish to complain that we haven't complied with one of these policies
- you think we should change one of these policies.
Policies:
- Deciding to take policy action
- Handling external complaints
- Letters of support
- Regional, rural & remote strategy
- Student placements
- Training & events
- Youth participation strategy
Other YAPA policies to help you develop your own
The following YAPA policies only affect YAPA staff and Board members. We present them here to help other agencies develop their own policies.
- Accountabilities table
- Admin support provided to policy & project staff
- Alcohol & Illicit drugs
- Annual leave
- Applying for funding
- Board expenses
- Budget monitoring
- Budget preparation
- Computer files backup
- Credit cards
- Correspondence
- Disciplinary action & dismissal
- Disposal of equipment
- Donations & sponsorship
- Drafting new policies ready for approval
- Employing staff
- Financial delegations and payments
- Gifts & prizes
- Grievances
- Hours of work & TIL
- Income management
- Internal supervision of permanent staff
- Laptop
- Library
- Mandatory reporting
- Media
- Membership
- Payment of fines
- Petty cash
- Orientation of new staff
- Recording & payment of salaries
- Representation on committees
- Signing of documents
- Smoking
- Staff development & training
- Staff & policy meetings
- Staff records
- Work related expenses
