Ferret can understand their angst - council spending on services for young people has fallen by hundreds of millions of pounds since 2010, while Labour estimates that more than 600 youth centres have closed over that time.
In light of this, you'd expect a petition calling on the government "to invest more money in youth charities and youth service providers" to receive plenty of backing from across the sector. However, a petition to that effect logged on Parliament's official petitions page failed to take off.
In the six months the petition was "live" on the parliament website, it received a grand total of 38 signatures. When the petition was closed on 1 August, it was 9,962 short of its 10,000 target.
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