Ultra-modern youth facilities can deliver substantial savings for the public purse, including local authorities, and help improve the outcomes for young people who use them, analysis by youth zones operator OnSide has revealed.
The findings go some way to responding to calls - most recently from Carey Oppenheim, chief executive of the Early Intervention Foundation - for the youth sector to show evidence of the beneficial outcomes it delivers.
Such evidence could prove timely. Youth work has experienced deep cuts to services already and with further reductions in children's services spending on the horizon, experts say there is greater need than ever before to evidence the outcomes the sector has.
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