The Department for Education’s local authority and school expenditure report shows that in 2020/21, £379.4m was spent on youth services.
A breakdown of figures shows that £153.5m was spent on universal youth services and £225.9m was spent on targeted youth services including programmes around substance misuse and teenage pregnancy over the last year.
Data shows that total spend on youth services has decreased from £528m in 2015/16 and £1,357m in 2010/11.
Analysis by the YMCA finds that this equates to a real-terms fall of 74 per cent in investment over the last decade, meaning youth services have suffered a loss of £1.1bn.
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