Research by the National Youth Agency (NYA) has found areas worst affected by youth centre closures have seen an increased likelihood of children being involved in crime.
The finding is drawn from a study of 74 sources of academic literature and evidence and detailed in the report The social cost of youth work cuts: Preventing youth offending through youth work. It shows that in London boroughs worst affected by youth centre closures between 2010 and 2019, participation in crime by 10 to 15-year-olds increased by 10 per cent.
The report highlights how over the same period, the profile of youth crime has changed with more violent and drugs-related offences recorded – convictions for offences involving knives are more than 30 per cent higher now than in 2014/15.
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