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£90m announced from shaved-back youth fund
02/02/2024 A further £90m in grant funding will be allocated to youth services from a scaled-back fund worth ‘over £300m’. |
‘Shockingly high’ justice system involvement among care-experienced children
21/09/2023 A third of care-experienced children born from 1996-99 received a youth justice caution or conviction – a finding described as a ‘terrible indictment of the failure of local authorities’. |
Blackburn with Darwen Council secures £8m for youth facilities
07/08/2023 Blackburn with Darwen Council has successfully secured £8m of new funding to pay for four major projects to boost facilities for young people. |
Youth centres to benefit from £70m investment
04/08/2023 An estimated 12,000 young people are set to benefit from the refurbishment of over 40 youth centres, the Government has announced. |
Campaigners call for ‘community-led approach’ to youth violence
25/04/2023 Police powers should be reduced and a ‘community-led approach’ to violence among young people adopted instead, according to campaigners. |
New youth work qualification to build skills
13/01/2023 The National Youth Agency has launched a new Level 4 qualification to help practitioners develop their skills in specialist areas. |
Investment in youth work saves Government up to £3.2bn per year, research finds
11/11/2022 The annual investment of up to £1bn in youth services saves the Government as much as £3.2bn per year, according to new research. |
Government announces £5m to keep youths away from crime
04/11/2022 The Government has announced that £5m will be made available to help keep young people away from crime by encouraging them to take part in sports. |
First recipients of youth fund to receive £12m
27/05/2022 The first recipients of the Government’s Youth Investment Fund are set to receive £12m in funding to help improve access to services and youth workers. |
LGA: Youth services funding cut could have paid for 1,000 support workers
25/02/2022 More than 1,000 youth and community support workers could be recruited using money removed from a flagship government fund for youth services, local authority leaders have said. |
Youth services hit by 'decade of funding failures'
15/02/2022 Spending on youth services in England has fallen by £1.1bn in the past decade, according to analysis by the YMCA. |
Budget 2021: More money for youth services and 'family hubs'
27/10/2021 A £560m cash injection for youth services and the funding of ‘family hubs’ in England to support children and parents have been confirmed in today’s Budget. |
Over two million young people ‘overlooked’ in COVID recovery
26/08/2021 The over two million young people living in rural areas are being overlooked in the post-pandemic recovery, a new report has warned. |
Council chiefs urge Government to put children at ‘heart of recovery’
14/07/2021 Local authority leaders have called for a cross-government strategy to ensure that children and young people are at the heart of the post-pandemic recovery. |
Launch of £16.5m youth COVID-19 support fund
26/11/2020 The Government has unveiled a £16.5m youth COVID-19 support fund to help protect the future of grassroots and national organisations. |
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Councils call for devolution of National Citizen Service funding
06/11/2020 Only one in six eligible young people are taking part in the National Citizen Service (NCS), leading to calls for the Government to devolve its funding to local youth services instead. |
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A third of youth services at risk of closure, research shows
04/08/2020 A third of London’s services for young people are at risk of closing down in the next six months, new research has warned. |
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MPs warn youth services cuts are increasing knife crime
10/03/2020 Councils should have a legal duty to deliver a minimum level of youth services to help prevent knife crime, MPs have argued today. |
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Youth services bearing brunt of 'drastic' cuts finds report
03/03/2020 Youth services have a vital role to play in tackling crime, gang culture and loneliness, a charity has argued today. |
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Knife crime ‘epidemic’ fuelled by cuts, committee says
13/02/2020 Cuts to important and life-saving services for vulnerable young people have caused a rise in knife crime, according to a new report. |
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Khan announces over £55m of funding to tackle causes of crime
13/02/2020 Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today announced that £55.5m of new funding will be available for tackling the underlying causes of violent crime in the capital. |
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Regional inequality impacts girls’ ‘quality of life’
20/01/2020 Inequality between the UK’s regions means that some girls are being ‘left behind’, a children’s charity has warned. |
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Youth service funding cut by 70% over decade
20/01/2020 A whole generation of young people have been ‘robbed’ of youth centres due to cuts, a union has warned. |
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Youth projects given £12m funding boost
25/10/2019 Youth projects across the country are to be given a £12m boost culture secretary Nicky Morgan has announced. |
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Khan announces £4m for London youth workers
16/10/2019 The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced he will invest £4m to increase the number of youth workers in hospitals across the capital. |
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Youth service spending set to hit ‘lowest point in a generation’
25/09/2019 The young persons charity YMCA has warned that spending on local youth services is at ‘breaking point’ with a nearly 70% decrease in funding in a decade. |
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Crime-fighting funds in scarce supply - survey
21/08/2019 Three out of four UK council chief executives and leaders do not have access to enough funding to tackle rising levels of violent youth crime, a survey has found. |
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MPs declare youth violence to be ‘social emergency’
31/07/2019 Young people have been failed in the ‘most devastating way’ by the Government, MPs have said, as they warn that youth violence is a ‘social emergency’. |
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Council chiefs welcome review of youth services
11/07/2019 Local government leaders have welcomed a review of youth services announced by civil society minister Mims Davies. |
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Councils ‘in the dark’ over youth service funding
15/05/2019 Local authority leaders have warned that councils ‘remain in the dark’ over youth service funding that helps tackle knife crime and county lines drug dealing. |
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Cuts to youth services factor in rise of knife crime, MPs say
07/05/2019 The local areas that have experienced the largest cuts to their youth services budgets have seen increases in knife crime, MPs have revealed. |
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Neuroscience and knife crime
24/04/2019 Gifford Sutherland, knife crime expert at The Training Hub, provides some insight into neuroscience, young people and knife crime. |
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Council chiefs call for investment in services young people ‘need’
12/04/2019 Local government leaders have welcomed the Government’s proposed youth charter, but insist investment in local services is what young people ‘want and need’. |
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Quarter of care leavers experience 'low life satisfaction’, charity finds
01/04/2019 Young people leaving care are seven times more likely to be unhappy with their lives than their peers, according to new research. |
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Councils to be part of ‘multi-agency initiative’ against knife crime
01/04/2019 Local authorities will be among the bodies involved in a multi-agency initiative against knife crime launched by home secretary Sajid Javid. |
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Council chiefs criticise £10m ‘brand revamp’ of youth initiative
15/03/2019 Local authority leaders have criticised the Government’s decision to spend £10m on a ‘brand revamp’ of an underused youth initiative. |
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Youth service funding essential to tackle ‘spate of violence’, council chiefs say
11/03/2019 Local authority leaders have called on the Government to invest more in youth justice grants as part of the effort to tackle knife crime. |
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Austerity is gutting services ‘vital’ to women’s lives, report reveals
07/03/2019 Austerity has hit women the hardest with funding for women’s refuges, social care and youth and children’s services slashed, a new report has found. |
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Uniformed youth groups get £5m funding boost
10/09/2018 The Government today announced a £5m fund to help increase places for vulnerable young people in uniformed youth groups. |
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Whitehall spends 95% of youth services budget on 'unpopular' programme
02/08/2018 The Government’s National Citizen Service (NCS) is only attracting a small number of young people despite hundreds of millions of pounds of investment, local government leaders find. |
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Unions submit pay rise claim for youth and community workers
14/05/2018 Unions have submitted a pay claim for youth and community workers they say would narrow a growing gap between falling wages and rising costs caused by austerity. |
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Benefit reforms a driver of youth homelessness, charity says
16/04/2018 Welfare reforms are contributing to homelessness among young people aged 16 to 24, charity warns. |
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Cuts to youth services lead to rise in crime warn councils
05/03/2018 Government funding cuts have served to undermine years of work by local authorities in tackling youth crime, council chiefs warn. |
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Khan warns youth services cuts are fuelling rise in knife crime
28/06/2017 The Government has been urged by the London mayor to reverse its £400m cuts to youth services in order to tackle rising knife crime in the capital. |
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Millions cut from youth services spending warns Unison
12/08/2016 More than half of all councils have cut youth services in the last year, trade unions have warned. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.
