Youth workers are increasingly taking roles outside traditional youth work settings, such as housing programmes, within the NHS, and in social care or youth justice-focused programmes. Youth work degrees are meeting the need for flexibility with modules covering social care, health, social enterprise and business development.
However, as local authorities cut back on traditional youth work, funding that used to support youth workers through qualifications and training is also drying up. Unison figures, published in 2016, show council youth services shed 3,652 jobs over the previous six years, while local authority data shows spending on youth services fell from £815m in 2012/13 to £489.5m in 2016/17.
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