Youth work - New-look NYA bids to speak out

On the face of it, this week's relaunch of the National Youth Agency (NYA) is hardly the most radical of organisational makeovers. There's no flashy new name - merely the removal of the "The" from its title - and while a new, more colourful logo has replaced the longstanding black and maroon motif, it is unlikely to provoke a debate of London 2012-style proportions.

But behind this presentational change lies a more fundamental restructuring of the youth sector support agency. While the agency has benefited from a government grant for the past 12 years, its latest £1.1m funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) was pulled earlier this year, leaving it to make some difficult decisions about which aspects of its work would survive. Fourteen redundancies were made in September, bringing the total number of job losses to 25 over the past two years. The publications team and the policy and information unit are among the departments to have been scaled back. Further posts have gone in its youth volunteering, learning and achievement, health and participation programmes. The agency now employs just 40 full-time staff.