In the past year, 208,466 young people started their Duke of Edinburgh Award journey (a year-on-year increase of 13 per cent). The demand is greater than we have the resources to support. Thousands are turned away by their local authority youth service, school or youth group each year through lack of resources; heartbreaking and frustrating to me.
Our experience of working with young people with a range of abilities and backgrounds confirms to us that David Blunkett is correct that young people will respond positively to opportunity presented to them by enthusiastic, motivated and skilled adults.
I am keen that the government is not encouraged to reinvent the wheel. There are excellent organisations and programmes of activity in existence that can do more if given the encouragement and resources.
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