The Department for Communities and Local Government announced which grants would no longer be ringfenced this morning.
As predicted in CYP Now this week, the government has removed the ringfence around the £40.8m allocated to the youth opportunity fund. The fund was established as part of the Youth Matters green paper in 2005 and has proved popular for giving young people the power to decide how hundreds of millions of pounds of government money should be spent on youth projects and facilities.
The remaining £75m of capital funding for play has also been freed up to allow local authorities to use it as they please. The money was part of £235m that had been dedicated to building and refurbishing 3,500 playgrounds across England as part of the previous government's Play Strategy.
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