Findings from a Cabinet Office survey of local authority youth services provide an insight into the depth of the funding crisis affecting the sector nationally.
Much of the data, based on a survey of council youth services leads carried out last autumn and covering up to the 2013/14 period, confirms the trends that many in the sector had been warning about for some time – namely, that spending is on the slide and universal provision is the main loser as more of the dwindling pot is channelled into targeted interventions.
However, a finding that has caught many by surprise is the admission by more than half of survey respondents that they sometimes ignore statutory guidance when making funding decisions.
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