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What's next for youth social action?

3 mins read Young Voices Heard
The Step Up To Serve seven campaign is drawing to a close.

Organisations are bidding to take forward #iwill 2.00 and the DCMS has just published the latest Youth Social Action Survey. How will this definition of youth ‘service’ roll out in 2021?

"The vast majority (9 in 10) cared about making the world a better place - however, overall rates of participation in social action have decreased over the last five years." 

Findings from the latest Youth Social Action Survey (2019), show that whilst 88 per cent of  young people still care about making the world a better place and 86 per cent agreed that is was important to try and make a difference, there has been a downward trend in youth social action activity since the annual survey started in 2014. 

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