If ministers were in any doubt about the severity of the funding crisis in youth services, a new report by the National Youth Agency (NYA) and YMCA has laid it out in stark terms. Titled Time’s Running Out, the report warns that unless significant funding is forthcoming immediately youth services will be “decimated”, with dire consequences for some of the most vulnerable young people.
Many of the arguments and figures in the report are well rehearsed: spending on youth services by councils has more than halved over the past decade, with the average net spend per young person falling from £136 in 2011 to £54 in 2020. Over the same period, hundreds of youth centres have closed and thousands of youth worker posts lost.
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