While Rachel Reeves pledged a real terms funding increase of £1.3 billion for local authorities and an increase of £6.7bn of capital investment for the Department for Education for 2025/26, there was no mention of specific funding for youth services and initiatives to prevent youth violence.
The omission comes despite Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy promising earlier this month that the government would “develop and co-produce a strategy for a generation of young people”, working alongside them and youth workers, “to support a generation to succeed”.
Speaking in the House of Commons on 18 October, Nandy, whose Department for Culture, Media and Sport covers youth services, described more than £1bn worth of cuts to youth services over the last 12 years as a “national shame”.
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