In a slightly unusual move, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy unveiled how much funding would be provided to deliver the strategy six months before the policy document itself is due to land. Nandy, who knows the sector well from her time as a policy officer in several children’s charities in the noughties, said the strategy will be produced with young people and the sector, and published by next spring in time to influence the Spending Review.
Reaction to the £185mn funding package has been mixed because while it gives with one hand, it takes with the other.
New money to invest in youth centre equipment, local authority infrastructure and education and training pilots is somewhat offset by the ending next year of the National Citizen Service and Youth Investment Fund (YIF), worth a combined £150mn annually.
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