However, as councils struggle under the weight of funding pressures, youth services are being forced to bear the brunt of the cuts.
As our research showed, spending on youth services across England looks set to reach its lowest point in a generation. YMCA's analysis found that the average spend on youth services per local authority in 2010 was £7.79m, and the planned average spend for 2019/20 is just £2.45m - a 69 per cent decline.
For anyone within the sector, this news will not come as a surprise. Years of cuts have resulted in colleagues losing their jobs, programmes being removed and young people in need left to fend for themselves.
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