Cuts to council youth services over the past two years have been well documented, and just last week figures from the Department for Education showed spending on youth services by England's local authorities is set to fall by a further 12.7 per cent in 2014/15.
So the Institute for Youth Work (IYW), which passed its first anniversary last week, could play a vital role in galvanizing professional pride and identity for the tens of thousands of qualified and unqualified youth workers, students training to become youth practitioners and the volunteers who give up their spare time to support children and young people.
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