The Chancellor failed to pull a rabbit out of the hat for youth services, sticking to protecting early years services and schools budgets as predicted. There will be £2bn made available for an early intervention grant but this looks likely to be spread thinly across a range of areas from early years to youth offending programmes. The government will also plough ahead with its pilot scheme for a National Citizen Service, which will benefit mainly national youth charities and outdoor education providers. Further money will be available to the wider voluntary sector through the £100m transition fund and the proposed big society bank, but nothing has been set aside explicitly for youth programmes.
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