The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today (21 May) announced that the NYA will oversee the running of the UKYP until March 2025.
The British Youth Council (BYC) announced its closure in March citing “ongoing financial challenges”.
The organisation had overseen the running of the UKYP for more than a decade, winning a final £750,000 contract from government in March last year to run the youth parliament for two years.
It has not been announced how much funding the NYA has received for its new role.
NYA will work with existing delivery partners, the regional youth work units in England, the Scottish Youth Parliament, Children in Wales, and consultants in Northern Ireland, to run the UKYP, according to DCMS.
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