London’s youth service cuts 2011-2021: a blighted generation, by Green Party London Assembly member Sian Berry finds that youth service funding across London as a whole has been cut by 44 per cent in the last decade.
“The average council budget for youth services in 2011/12 was £2.6m, and this fell to just £1.1m by 2020/21. If all councils had been able to maintain budgets at 2011/12 levels, Londoners would have seen at least £242m more invested in support for young people over the past 10 years,” the report states.
Staffing and resources have been badly hit by cuts with data showing that more than 600 full-time youth worker jobs have been lost across the capital, reducing the average provision per borough from 48 youth workers to just 15.
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