Speaking in the House of Commons, 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”.
She vowed 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”.
The pledge came in answer to a question from Melanie Onn, Labour MP for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, about the impact of youth services on levels of antisocial behaviour.
Nandy said: “It is a source of national shame that youth funding decreased by 73% under the last government – one of the deepest cuts made to any of our public services – and that there was no real strategy for a generation of young people.
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