The National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS) is a rights based charity which operates across England and Wales for children, young people and adults.

NYAS offers a variety of services including:

• A national advocacy helpline.
• Advocacy for children in care and those in need – including children subject to child protection plans, care leavers, children and young people with disabilities.
• The provision of independent visitors for children in care.
• Legal representation of children in private family law.
• Advocacy to adults in-inpatient mental health settings.

NYAS is a national children’s charity, based in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

NYAS provides advocacy and legal representation to children and vulnerable adults when important decisions are being made about them. The children and young people NYAS work with might be in care, have a disability or special needs, be subject to child protection plans, have mental health difficulties or their parents might be separating.