The Office for Youth is responsible for: planning, organisation and implementation of measures in the area of the youth policy; activities in the area of social policy for children and young people, education and informal education, leisure activities, culture, public information and international co-operation; the monitoring of the implementation of the regulations and other acts relating to young people, warning of non-effective realisation of regulations and proposing measures for more effective realisation; the formulation and supervision of the implementation of the priority youth programmes; the monitoring of the role and position of young people in society; improving the conditions for organised youth activities and youth organisations; stimulating the mobility of young people; finding better ways of supplying young people with information and advice; support for international exchanges and the subsidising of trips for children and young people; encouraging various interest activities of young people; and the creation of conditions for the inclusion of young people in social processes.