Central Government support for the youth service is needed now more than ever

I’ve written before about my concerns of an increasingly fragmented youth sector. Local authorities, under growing central pressure to save money, are ‘casually’ slicing through their youth service funding.  Even before Gove’s comments of the 23rd January the government where refusing to intervene in local authorities’ levels of funding for youth provisions, leaving the service to rapidly dwindle and forced to seek new strategies and …

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