The draft report of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on youth affairs, published in October 2018, was blunt: "Open-access youth services have all but disappeared in some areas". Where such losses were "pronounced", it concluded, there were "concerns for ‘overlooked' young people who do not meet the threshold for targeted interventions".
In my book Austerity, Youth Policies and the Deconstruction of the Youth Service in England, I trace these developments over the past decade and how they were shaped by their wider ideological and youth policy contexts. The starting point is 2007/08 and a financial crisis whose legacy for young people, according to one commentator, represented a "fundamental breach of what used to be the social contract".
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