The Cabinet reshuffle that followed Theresa May becoming Prime Minister in July saw the youth services portfolio moved to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) when the Office for Civil Society in which it resides transferred out of the Cabinet Office.
It is the second time youth services has moved government department in three years, after the transfer from the Department for Education to the Cabinet Office in July 2013. That decision reflected the then Education Secretary Michael Gove's view that youth work was "a priority for local not central government". The recent move to the DCMS appears to have been made to more closely align services for young people with sports and leisure activities.
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