Jan Cosgrove, national secretary of Fair Play for Children, has likened the government’s handling of youth services to a “car crash” a year after the portfolio was transferred from the Department for Education to the Cabinet Office.
The government handed responsibility for youth policy to the Cabinet Office and civil society minister Nick Hurd on 1 July 2013 – a decision that saw the policy removed from the education portfolio for the first time since World War II.
At the time, Hurd told CYP Now that the decision to transfer the policy seemed “very logical” due to the Cabinet Office being central to Whitehall decision making.
However, Cosgrove said he thought youth work was removed from the DfE because it was no longer wanted there and that he had seen nothing over the past year to support the move to the Cabinet Office.
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