The union's regional officers are reporting funding difficulties, which general secretary Doug Nicholls attributed to the abolition this year of the "youth and community sub block". This indicated the amount central government allocated to local authority youth services.
He said: "There's no funding stream for youth work any more and that's the fundamental cause of the problem. There's no longer a duty on local authorities to provide local authority youth services."
Tom Wylie, the chief executive of The National Youth Agency, said there was a need for transparency in all spending on young people. "We don't want the general pooled budget arrangements of (children's) trusts to lead to greater obscurity," he said.
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