This figure includes 345m from Education Formula Spending (EFS), as allocated by central government, and 107.5m (24 per cent of the total) from other sources. On average local authorities spent 100 per head on their 13 to 19 youth population.
Some 29m was given in grant aid and contract arrangements to the voluntary sector, amounting to an average of just under six per cent of local authority spending. Nationally, the local authority youth service employed 4,225 professionally qualified staff, accounting for 3,630 full-time equivalents (FTE); 17,000 youth support posts accounting for 3,900 FTE; about 880 in management posts (845 FTE) and an FTE of 1,570 in administration.
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