Professor Patrick McGhee, assistant vice-chancellor, University of Bolton, and board adviser at management consultants MetaValue
When discussing and debating the future of universal, open-access youth services, often referred to as open youth services (OYS), it is important to understand two paradoxes: first, when they are most needed, they are least well-funded; and second, the features that make them effective are the very features that make them vulnerable.
Cuts to youth services due to reduced central government funding for local authorities have come at the same time as young people are themselves facing a crisis of employment, housing, education and a lack of protective support through welfare.
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