The youth services workforce has lost around 4,500 frontline practitioners over the last 12 years amid a 77% cut in local authority funding for provision over the same time period, warns the National Youth Agency’s (NYA) first sector workforce survey.
“England currently does not have the workforce to meet demand and many young people do not have access to a youth worker where they live,” the research says, highlighting that 20% of youth work bodies have a waiting list to attend services of up to three months.
Almost six in 10 youth workers currently employed have worked in the sector for a decade or more, according to the research.
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