At the Conservative Party conference, Chancellor Sajid Javid announced government plans to establish a new Youth Investment Fund backed by £500m over five years.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said the fund will help build 60 new youth centres and refurbish 360 existing facilities. It also committed to providing more than 100 mobile youth centres for harder to reach areas.
In addition, the department said the fund will also support the provision and co-ordination of high-quality services for young people, and an investment in the youth workforce.
The announcement - which expanded on plans in September's one-year Spending Round - has been broadly welcomed by the sector, although some have highlighted that the funding does not fully offset cuts in youth work spending.
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