Government-commissioned research by Ipsos Mori has measured the impact of funding new ways of delivering youth social action on engaging hard-to-reach young people.
The government used £10m in Libor fines in 2014 to establish the Uniformed Youth Social Action Fund, which uniformed youth groups have used to create new units.
The fund, managed by the Youth United Foundation, was distributed in two phases. The bulk – £7.8m –was used in the first phase to increase social action opportunities for young people through uniformed youth groups. It funded 14 groups to create 27,000 new places, ahead of its 15,000 target.
Phase two of the fund, launched in October 2014, offered a share of £1.45m to five uniformed youth groups to pilot new approaches to engaging socially excluded six- to 25-year-olds. The rest went towards research and administration.
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