Publications
A complete register of Young Policy publications.
Core Publications
Author: Andrew Young
YP-01-25: The GRACE Framework — A Governance & Accountability Green Paper
Published November 2025
(Available on request)
YP-02-25: HOLLY Safeguarding Standard (HSS)
Published November 2025
(Summary on the HSS page)
YP-03-25: GRACE Executive Summary
Published December 2025
(Available on the GRACE Framework page)
YP-04-25: Summary of the GRACE Methodology
Published December 2025
(Available on the Methodology page)
YP-05-26 to YP-10-26: GRACE Methodology Explanatory Governance Notes
Published December 2025
(Methodology notes are accessed via the Methodology page, where notes expand sequentially)
System Analysis — Governance Notes
Author: Andrew Young
Series 1 — Safeguarding Systems & Public Protection (HOLLY)
YP-11-26 (S1): Safeguarding as a Governance Responsibility
YP‑12‑26 (S1): Safeguarding Systems and Institutional Risk
YP-13-26 (S1): Vulnerability Recognition and Institutional Language
YP-14-26 (S1): Fragmented Safeguarding Architecture
YP-15-26 (S1): Organised Exploitation as a Governance Stress Test
YP-16-26 (S1): Governance Architecture for Safeguarding
YP-17-26 (S1): From Scandal Response to System Design
YP-18-26 (S1): Automatic Safeguarding Review Triggers Following Criminal Convictions
YP-19-26 (S1): Victim Restitution and Long‑Term Offender Financial Accountability
YP-20-26 (S1): Safeguarding Frameworks: Context and Operational Standards
YP-21-26 (S1): Safeguarding, Public Protection, and Community Control
YP-22-26 (S1): Coercive Environments and Governance System Design
YP-23-26 (S1): Governance, Liability, and System Design
YP-39-26 (S1): Influence, Coercion, and Early Safeguarding Thresholds
Series 2 — System Integrity — Financial & Administrative Controls
Introduction (S2)
YP-40-26 (S2): The Attribution Standard — Consent Requires Visibility
YP-41-26 (S2): Fiscal Visibility, Attribution, and System Leakage
YP-42-26 (S2): Funding Flows, Intermediaries, and Control Dilution
YP-43-26 (S2): Procurement, Contracts, and Attribution Failure
Series 3: Institutional Response & Major Incidents
Series notes to follow.
Series 4: Legal Frameworks, Rights & Enforcement
Series notes to follow.
Series 5 — Migration, Asylum & Border Systems
YP-01-26 (S5): GRACE Framework Update Gibraltar Treaty Review
YP-02-26 (S5): Operational Governance Architecture of the Gibraltar Arrangements
YP-03-26 (S5): Governance Questions Following Publication of the Gibraltar Treaty
YP-04-26 (S5): Procedural Leverage in EU Decision-Making Affecting Gibraltar
YP-34-26 (S5): Migration Pressure, External Border Dynamcs, and Operational Exposure un the Gibraltar Arrangements
YP-35-26 (S5): Gibraltar Treaty — ECHR Divergence as a System Stress Test
Series 6: Data, Digital Identity & System Governance
Series notes to follow.
Series 7: Local Impact, Housing & Public Services
Series notes to follow.
Series 8 — International Agreements & Sovereignty
YP-36-26 (S8): Annex D — Treaty Dependencies, Transparency and System Control
YP-37-26 (S8): NATO — Conditional Security Guarantees and Alignment Pressure as a System Stress Test
YP-38-26 (S8): External Political Signalling as a Governance Input — A GRACE Assessment
Series 9 — Transparency, Accountability & Public Trust
YP-24-26 (S9): Convergence, Patronage Risk and Early Governance Detection
YP-25-26 (S9): Election Cycles as a Structural Governance Pressure System (A Convergence Amplifier)
YP-26-26 (S9): Regulatory Parity and Democratic Transparency — A Governance Consistency Principle
YP-27-26 (S9): Convergence in Welfare Systems — A GRACE Framework Test Case
YP-28-26 (S9): Cross-System Convergence — NHS and Public Service Governance
YP-29-26 (S9): Democratic Systems, Influence Structures, and Constrained Participation
YP-30-26 (S9): Detection, Thresholds, and Democratic Safeguards
YP-31-26 (S9): Distributed Authority, Institutional Layers, and System Constraint
YP-32-26 (S9): Mapping Authority — Transparency, Attribution, and Democratic Visibility
YP-33-26 (S9): System Integration — Visibility, Attribution, and Control
Series 10: Future Systems & Reform Pathways
Series notes to follow.