"We are the only local youth provider and young people will have no safe place to meet if our project goes."
This is just one of the comments made by statutory and voluntary youth organisations in response to two surveys conducted by CYP Now into the cuts facing the youth sector.
In the largest study of its kind, more than 130 youth charities and 38 heads of youth services took part in surveys to establish the impact that public sector cuts will have on young people's services in the coming months.
Almost all (95 per cent) of heads of local authority youth services say their budgets for providing services to young people in their area are being cut. Nearly half of local authorities (47 per cent) face budget cuts of less than 10 per cent but one says it will have to cut its budget by between 61 and 70 per cent. Out of the charities that replied, the largest number (37 per cent) face budgets cuts of between 10 and 20 per cent, while seven per cent say they expect to lose more than 90 per cent of their funding.
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