12/10/2025

A £500m backed strategy to improve youth services over the next decade has been launched by the Government.

9/24/2025

Premier League club charities are to help provide young people with wellbeing, work and skills support.

8/6/2025

The Government has launched a youth service support package backed by an £88m investment.

4/24/2025

Council directors working in children’s services have criticized the Government’s decision to allow the use of pepper spray in young offender institutions.

2/27/2025

Children in prison have been failed by ‘multiple services’ and youth custody worsens their disadvantages, according to the Children’s Commissioner.

11/28/2024

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for a funding boost to prevent cuts to youth services.

8/20/2024

Islington Council’s Youth Justice Service (YJS) has today been hailed by inspectors as among the best in England and Wales.

6/14/2024

Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, tells LocalGov.co.uk what the sector’s biggest union hopes to see from the next government.

6/14/2024

Funding cuts have led to the closure of more than two-thirds of council-run youth centres in England and Wales since 2010, according to a trade union.

2/2/2024

A further £90m in grant funding will be allocated to youth services from a scaled-back fund worth ‘over £300m’.

9/21/2023

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’.

8/7/2023

Blackburn with Darwen Council has successfully secured £8m of new funding to pay for four major projects to boost facilities for young people.

8/4/2023

An estimated 12,000 young people are set to benefit from the refurbishment of over 40 youth centres, the Government has announced.

4/25/2023

Police powers should be reduced and a ‘community-led approach’ to violence among young people adopted instead, according to campaigners.

1/13/2023

The National Youth Agency has launched a new Level 4 qualification to help practitioners develop their skills in specialist areas.

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.

11/4/2022

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.

5/27/2022

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.

2/25/2022

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.

2/15/2022

Spending on youth services in England has fallen by £1.1bn in the past decade, according to analysis by the YMCA.

10/27/2021

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.

8/26/2021

The over two million young people living in rural areas are being overlooked in the post-pandemic recovery, a new report has warned.

7/14/2021

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.

11/26/2020

The Government has unveiled a £16.5m youth COVID-19 support fund to help protect the future of grassroots and national organisations.

11/6/2020

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.

8/4/2020

A third of London’s services for young people are at risk of closing down in the next six months, new research has warned.

3/10/2020

Councils should have a legal duty to deliver a minimum level of youth services to help prevent knife crime, MPs have argued today.

3/3/2020

Youth services have a vital role to play in tackling crime, gang culture and loneliness, a charity has argued today.

2/13/2020

Cuts to important and life-saving services for vulnerable young people have caused a rise in knife crime, according to a new report.

2/13/2020

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.

1/20/2020

Inequality between the UK’s regions means that some girls are being ‘left behind’, a children’s charity has warned.

1/20/2020

A whole generation of young people have been ‘robbed’ of youth centres due to cuts, a union has warned.

10/25/2019

Youth projects across the country are to be given a £12m boost culture secretary Nicky Morgan has announced.

10/16/2019

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced he will invest £4m to increase the number of youth workers in hospitals across the capital.

9/25/2019

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.

8/21/2019

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.

7/31/2019

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’.

7/11/2019

Local government leaders have welcomed a review of youth services announced by civil society minister Mims Davies.

5/15/2019

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.

5/7/2019

The local areas that have experienced the largest cuts to their youth services budgets have seen increases in knife crime, MPs have revealed.

4/24/2019

Gifford Sutherland, knife crime expert at The Training Hub, provides some insight into neuroscience, young people and knife crime.

4/12/2019

Local government leaders have welcomed the Government’s proposed youth charter, but insist investment in local services is what young people ‘want and need’.

4/1/2019

Young people leaving care are seven times more likely to be unhappy with their lives than their peers, according to new research.

4/1/2019

Local authorities will be among the bodies involved in a multi-agency initiative against knife crime launched by home secretary Sajid Javid.

3/15/2019

Local authority leaders have criticised the Government’s decision to spend £10m on a ‘brand revamp’ of an underused youth initiative.

3/11/2019

Local authority leaders have called on the Government to invest more in youth justice grants as part of the effort to tackle knife crime.

3/7/2019

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.

9/10/2018

The Government today announced a £5m fund to help increase places for vulnerable young people in uniformed youth groups.

8/2/2018

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.

5/14/2018

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.

4/16/2018

Welfare reforms are contributing to homelessness among young people aged 16 to 24, charity warns.

3/5/2018

Government funding cuts have served to undermine years of work by local authorities in tackling youth crime, council chiefs warn.

6/28/2017

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.

8/12/2016

More than half of all councils have cut youth services in the last year, trade unions have warned.