The NYA has been collecting data on youth service spending as part of its annual audit, a questionnaire filled in by all principal youth workers, since 1996-97. But concerns are growing that the audit fails to give an accurate reflection of money spent on youth work by local authorities in the changing landscape of children's trusts. In addition, principal youth officers are not compelled to return the audit forms.
Tom Wylie, chief executive of The National Youth Agency, plans to meet youth minister Beverley Hughes to press the Government to come up with a method of more accurately measuring spending on youth work.
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