Since the dawn of austerity in 2010, pressure has grown on youth organisations to provide data to evidence the impact of their work on young people.
This emphasis on data has, according to some, arisen out of a new youth impact agenda - a broad consensus between government and influential non-governmental organisations that the youth sector needs to improve its evidence through the (usually quantifiable) measurement of young people's progress against outcomes.
Funding for youth work, whether delivered by local authorities or voluntary organisations, is in short supply - council spending on young people has halved since 2010, while government early intervention funding has fallen from £2.4bn to £1bn over the same period.
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