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Lack of access to youth services reduces young people’s interest in sector careers, NYA warns

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Reduced access to youth services could be preventing young people from entering the sector when looking for employment, a new survey from the National Youth Agency (NYA) warns.
Youth services funding has decreased by 77% over the last decade. Picture: Photographeeu/Adobe Stock
Youth services funding has decreased by 77% over the last decade. Picture: Photographeeu/Adobe Stock

The NYA’s first youth services workforce survey finds that just 6% of the current workforce joined the sector in the last year, with numbers of young people embarking on youth work careers dwindling.

Just 7% of around 1,000 people who took part in the NYA’s survey are under 26 while almost half are aged 46 and above.

Almost two-thirds of older participants said they joined the sector in a bid to “give something back” having experienced youth work themselves.

However, the report suggests that the lack of access to services during the childhood and teenage years of people now in their early 20s is impacting this age group’s interest in joining the workforce.

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