Statistics released by the Department for Education based on information provided by councils show that total expenditure on services for young people fell by 26 per cent from £1,184m in 2010/11 to £877m in 2011/12.
Detail on the depth of cuts to young people’s services, catalogued in local authority Section 251 returns, comes less than a week after Education Secretary Michael Gove told a commons select committee that youth services are not a central government priority.
Fiona Blacke, chief executive of the National Youth Agency (NYA), said the statistics show that local services for young people are continuing to suffer the brunt of cuts being experienced by local authorities.
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