
Youth work bursaries worth £500,000 for 400 students were announced by outgoing youth minister Mims Davies, during a recent parliamentary speech on the sufficiency of youth services.
Davies also highlighted the recently signed Youth Charter, intended to strengthen and co-ordinate national policy and three initiatives for improving youth voice, announced in last year's Civil Society Strategy.
However, as local authority youth service budgets are estimated to have been slashed by £387m between 2010 and 2016, resulting in 3,652 youth work jobs lost and 603 youth centres closed since 2012, charity London Youth is concerned the "big questions" are being left unanswered.
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