Fiona Blacke, chief executive, National Youth Agency
Like everyone, I am trying to get my head round what the CSR will mean. There are some obvious questions like why has child benefit stopped being a universal allowance when heating grants and free travel for older people haven’t? Or what will it mean for public services when the cap on housing benefit bites and young people from disadvantaged urban communities become ghettoised in areas where the private rental market is cheapest? Or indeed what will be the impact on post-16 participation when the national funding formula for education maintenance allowances is removed and replaced with something that is down to local discretion?
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