Carey Oppenheim, chief executive of the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), says youth work is struggling to overcome the “evidence challenge” of proving to government and council commissioners that its work can improve young people’s lives.
Most recent Department for Education statistics on spending on youth services by councils show that it fell from £712.6m in 2013/14 to £621.9m in 2014/15, compounding year-on-year falls since 2010.
Oppenheim told CYP Now that youth work is a valuable method of early intervention but needs to prove its case.
“In the youth sector there is a lot of promising practice but the evidence gathering needs more development,” she said.
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