Cultural policy in Hungary, especially aimed at young people, is significantly connected to community culture through the concept of basic cultural provision. It is a form of provision in the field of culture that provides a minimum of cultural services used by the vast majority of the population. This makes the community level indispensable in culture-related tasks and a high priority in both planning and funding. Basic cultural services are often mentioned in relation to young people, especially students: one of the flagship programmes is the Lázár Ervin Programme (Lázár Ervin Program), which enables all primary school students to attend cultural events. Regarding the main directions of cultural policies, the role of culture in strengthening national identity is in focus and appears in youth-related policies.

Culture-related tasks can be found in several governmental and public bodies. Community culture is administered by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation (Kulturális és Innovációs Minisztérium), in the State Secretariat for Culture. The National Cultural Council (Nemzeti Kulturális Tanács), co-chaired by the Minister Responsible for Culture, is supposed to provide the technical basis for a coherent strategic governance of the cultural sectors. 

The two main public institutions related to strategic planning and funding are the National Cultural Fund (chaired by the Minister Responsible for Culture) and the Hungarian Academy of Arts. In contrast, the methodological background of community culture is provided by NMI Cultural Institute Non-profit Public Utility Ltd. Besides, the Foundation for Hungarian Culture (Magyar Kultúráért Alapítvány), founded in 2021, has a strategic role in cultural policies. Culture-related grants and support are administered and operated by the National Cultural Grant Management Office (Nemzeti Kulturális Támogatáskezelő).

There is no national strategy for creativity and culture for young people. The most relevant documents regarding the cultural policies of the government are the Act CXL of 1997 on Libraries, Museums, Archaeology and Local Culture (the 'cultural law') (1997. évi CXL. törvény), which has been significantly modified in 2017 to express the policies related to the concept of basic cultural care. Another important document is the Act CXXIV of 2019 on the National Cultural Council and the Institutions of Cultural Strategy (2019. évi CXXIV. törvény). Other strategies of related policy fields (mainly that of education) and projects related to community culture and the access of children and young people (mainly students) to culture, most importantly the Lázár Ervin Programme, are also relevant.

The strategic objectives mainly aim at protecting national culture and identity, improving young people's access to culture and widening the participation of cultural institutions in non-formal and informal learning opportunities.