Conference notes that NUS is the largest body representing students in Higher and Further Education in the UK.

Conference Believes:

1. That politics within NUS has long been exclusive, deeply factional, inflexible, and often illiberal and thus alienates many of its members.
2. That making NUS more effective is vital to increasing the influence students have in British politics.
3. That LDYS members - and LDYS itself - have a valuable role in working to make NUS more open, plural, inclusive, campaign-oriented, transparent and democratic.

Conference Resolves:

1. To campaign with NUS and Student Unions where their aims and policies are in keeping with those of LDYS.
2. To urge student members and branches to be active within their Unions.
3. To encourage LDYS members to stand for NUS committees at all levels and attend NUS Conference.
4. To support the NUS Liberation Campaigns in their fight against oppression, discrimination and prejudice.
5. To campaign for LDYS policies to be adopted by the NUS.
6. To advocate membership of and involvement in LDYS and NUS as an effective way of campaigning on issues of interest to students, including education funding, student welfare and fighting discrimination in society.

Conference further resolves that to achieve these aims, the objects of LDYS organisation within NUS shall be:

1. To incrementally increase the number of official Liberal Democrat candidates on NUS Committees at all levels and to campaign vigorously, each year, to elect a LDYS member to the NEC.
2. To maximise the number of student members attending NUS Conference as delegates of their Students' Unions and to keep these student members updated with details of candidates and LDYS activity.
3. To raise LDYS and the Liberal Democrats' profile within NUS, particularly at NUS Conference, but balancing this effort with the negative effects that can come from being seen as ‘just another faction’
4. To campaign to get LDYS policy passed and acted upon within NUS at all levels.
5. That LDYS should work to ensure maximum participation of all students at all levels of NUS, with particular attention to further education students.