The amount of money spent on youth services in England fell by 36 per cent in the two years up to March 2013, according to figures obtained by the BBC through a Freedom of Information request. They show that, in real terms, the amount spent by councils fell from £1.2bn in 2010/11, to £791m in 2012/13. Kensington and Chelsea, Tower Hamlets, Tameside, Stoke-on-Trent and Warrington saw the largest falls, while just seven out of 152 areas saw a rise.
There were 509 adults previously classified as unaccompanied asylum-seeking children forceably deported from the UK between 2009 and 2013, the government has revealed. Home Office minister James Brokenshire confirmed the figures in an answer to a parliamentary question posed by former children’s minister Sarah Teather. He said the number of enforced removals for each year were: 38 in 2009, 91 in 2010, 183 in 2011, 87 in 2012, and 110 in 2013.
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