The resilience fund has been created to pay for 12,000 DofE places for young people facing disadvantage.
In addition, the fund will support online training for up to 3,500 youth workers to support places for disadvantaged young people. This includes senior managers, frontline managers and volunteers. Those involved in DofE licensed organisations are eligible for the training.
The DofE is also calling for the UK government to fulfil its promise to release a £500m Youth Investment Fund to support youth services in England. This month charity and youth sector organisations wrote an open letter citing concerns that the pledge made in the Conservative Party's 2019 general election manifesto has yet to materialise.
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