Government's giveth and government's taketh away. Such is the fate of youth services over nearly 60 years of its government-funded existence. According to 1996 research by Smith, the Albemarle reforms of 1960 committed £28m into local authority buildings, budgets and workforce training, while dedicated funding pots were created for innovation in the voluntary sector.
In today's money that would be worth £633m; not quite enough to offset the £880m in real-terms cuts to services for young people that Labour has calculated have happened since 2010.
The government has recently recognised the impact that youth service cuts have had on youth violence and is starting to invest more in addressing this.
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