As this change takes place, the youth sector must do two things. First it must influence institutions such as the Department for Work and Pensions, which are new to funding the youth sector, to ensure they build youth involvement and leadership into the programmes they commission.
Second, we need to make it clear that, even though there is less money, it is crucial that youth participation is not seen as a luxury but as an essential part of providing quality youth provision.
Significant investment in programmes such as V and the youth opportunity fund has ensured that young people are now widely and meaningfully involved in the design, leadership and evaluation of voluntary and statutory services. The commitment to such approaches from those paying for them, particularly V and the now defunct Department for Children, Schools and Families, has driven up quality and ensured such approaches have become truly mainstream.
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