In October, the all-party parliamentary group on youth affairs published the interim findings from our youth work inquiry. Our cross-party inquiry, supported by the National Youth Agency (NYA), set out to consider what is the role of youth work and if there are sufficient youth workers and youth services to meet the needs of young people.
It has been more than seven years since the last parliamentary inquiry on youth work and services. In the intervening period, we have seen a national youth strategy shelved, and we are on our sixth minister and third government department. Austerity cuts have disproportionately hit youth services with a knock-on effect to smaller charities and community groups. Experienced youth workers have been lost to the system; training pathways have been fractured from senior management levels to volunteers.
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