Competence center youth check

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The Competence Center Youth Check (KomJC) is a project for the implementation and further development of the Youth Check , which is carried out by the German Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV) and funded by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth ( BMFSFJ ). The aim of the youth check is to make the effects of planned legislative proposals on young people between the ages of 12 and 27 visible and to incorporate the knowledge gained into the legislative process. The KomJC was founded in August 2017 and is based in Berlin.

Idea and goals

Laws from all policy fields can have intended and unintended effects on young people. The youth check systematically records these effects. The idea of ​​a youth check arose in the context of discussions about an independent youth policy . The background was the realization that the interests of young people often receive too little attention in political processes.

The mandate to develop the youth check was formulated in the coalition agreement of the 18th legislative period of the German Bundestag between the CDU / CSU and the SPD. The task was implemented by a workshop group of youth policy experts together with the Institute for Legal Impact Assessment and Evaluation (InGFA) of the German Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV). The German Federal Youth Council (DBJR), the Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare (AGJ), the Coordination Office for Action for a Youth-Friendly Society, the Federal Youth Board of Trustees (BJK), the German Youth Institute (DJI) and the BMFSFJ were involved.

The KomJC carries out the youth check and develops it further. Regulatory proposals by the federal government, especially draft bills , are checked for possible effects on the living conditions of young people between the ages of 12 and 27 using a standardized methodology. The youth check is therefore a process of legal impact assessment . It acts as a testing and awareness-raising instrument to increase political awareness of the circumstances and concerns of young people and to enable political decision-makers to more effectively consider the effects of the measures they are responsible for on young people. The Youth Check Competence Center is also intended to make a contribution to more youth justice and good legislation. In November 2018, the Competence Center Youth Check published its first activity report under the title “For youth-friendly legislation. First report of the Competence Center Youth Check ".

Examination and involvement in the legislative process

Legislative proposals from all departments are examined by the KomJC in a preliminary examination for their youth relevance at the stage of the ministerial draft and, if the result is positive, transferred to the main examination, the youth check. A standardized test procedure is used for this. This is based on a grid which is divided into six areas of life, for example “family” or “education / work”, and eleven impact dimensions, for example “health effects” or “individual rights”. While the areas of life examine where the proposed law could have an impact, the impact dimensions, on the other hand, depict what these effects could look like. Furthermore, the test is differentiated according to different groups of young people and their diverse life situations.

The identified effects are then summarized in youth checks. The youth checks are not assessments of the bills. Rather, its aim is to show possible youth-specific effects of the project in a neutral way in a detailed and comprehensible manner. The completed youth checks are published on the KomJC website. On the other hand, the youth checks are sent to the “Youth Strategy, Independent Youth Policy” department responsible at the BMFSFJ. This forwards the youth checks to the relevant specialist department, which can include the results of in-house drafts directly in the draft design. In the case of drafts from other departments that need to be discussed, the responsible specialist department forwards the KomJC's reports with its own statement and the request for consideration to the lead department.

Advisory Board

The KomJC is advised and supported by an advisory board made up of independent scientific and youth policy experts, which meets regularly. This is also included in the further development of the test instrument. The “Youth Strategy, Independent Youth Policy” section of the BMFSFJ is a permanent guest at the advisory board meetings.

Events

The Competence Center Youth Check (KomJC) attaches great importance to the perspectives and opinions of young people. Although the youth check is not an instrument for participation, the experiences from the different life situations of young people are included in the further development of the youth check through participation formats, for example the “youth audit # 1”. There, young people, as experts on their own behalf, gave feedback on the test instrument or on the test results of individual youth checks. The results are used to continuously improve the methodology of the youth check. The aim of this further development is to adequately reflect the reality of young people's lives. Therefore, such feedback events take place regularly.

Web links

Websites and reports on the Youth Check Competence Center

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.jugend-check.de/ueber-uns. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ German Bundestag, 15th report on children and young people. Report on the living situation of young people and the services provided by child and youth welfare in Germany, BT-Drucksache 18/11050 from 01.02.2017, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Shaping Germany's future. Coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and SPD. 18th legislative term. Berlin, December 16, 2013, p. 71 .
  4. ↑ Institute for Legal Impact Assessment and Evaluation | FÖV. February 12, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Testing & Procedure. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ reports KomJC. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Testing & Procedure. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ All youth checks archive. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Advisory Board. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Dates. Accessed February 12, 2019 (German).