An act to extend the functions of vocational education committees in relation to youth work, to provide for the making of grants in respect of youth work, to provide for the appointment of an assessor of youth work and his or her functions under the act, to establish voluntary youth councils, to provide for the development and co-ordination of organisations and persons engaged in youth work and in the provision of youth work programmes and youth work services and for that purpose to establish a national youth work advisory committee, to repeal the youth work act, 1997, and to provide for related matters.