In Hackney in 2000-01, for example, it appears no money at all was spent per capita on youth services. Other boroughs show apparent falls in youth service expenditure. In Islington, there appears to have been a reduction in expenditure of 47 per young person between 2001-02 and 2002-03.
A lot of these apparent discrepancies will be down to accounting or administrative errors that will be familiar to many youth workers. In Young People Now's last round-up of youth service budget and expenditure (YPN, 1-7 September, p16-20) many strange figures were variously explained as Department for Education and Skills mistakes, accountants erroneously including the local youth offending team in figures and generic services appearing in the youth spend figure. Calderdale, for example, includes youth service grants to adult community centres in its expenditure figure. When the authority separates this from the youth service expenditure figures, it will appear as though there has been a fall in spending.
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