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Sports funding boost for London youth clubs

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Monday, May 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Sixty London youth clubs will offer more young people sporting activities thanks to National Lottery funding.

Parish councils fill youth work void

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Monday, May 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Parish councils are stepping in to provide youth services where local authority budget cuts have reduced provision, according to a youth sector leader.

Youth work institute to launch in autumn

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Friday, April 26, 2013

| CYP Now

The Institute for Youth Work will open to qualified, non-qualified and student youth workers in September, it has been confirmed.

Deaf young people 'face exclusion from services'

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Monday, April 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authority commissioning processes are making it harder to provide services for young disabled people, a charity has warned.

CYP Now investigates the state of youth work provision

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Children & Young People Now is calling on youth project managers to take part in an important study looking at how their work is bearing up in the tough economic climate.

Charities and councils unite to save youth services

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Monday, March 11, 2013

| CYP Now

A coalition of charities, police and local authorities in West Sussex has raised £153,000 to ensure youth services continue in their area.

Gove confirms DfE could relinquish responsibility for youth policy

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Friday, March 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The government is considering shifting responsibility for youth policy from the Department for Education to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Education Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed.

Councils slash youth services spending by a quarter

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authority spending on youth services has dropped by more than 25 per cent in the space of just a year, government figures have revealed.

Sector raises 'huge concerns' over government approach to youth policy

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Monday, January 28, 2013

| CYP Now

A lack of government interest in youth services is marginalising young people and risks triggering social unrest, leading figures in the sector have warned.

Gove ‘fails to visit any youth project' during time at DfE

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Monday, January 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Michael Gove has failed to visit a single youth project in his two and a half years in charge of the Department for Education, a list drawn up by civil servants has revealed.

Youth organisation mergers vital in face of dwindling budgets, DfE official warns

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Friday, November 30, 2012

| CYP Now

Voluntary and community youth organisations must contemplate merging in the face of funding cuts in order to sustain services, a senior civil servant has said.

Labour pledges to make statutory youth services an election promise

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Monday, November 19, 2012

| CYP Now

Labour has confirmed plans to make youth services statutory if the party gains power at the next general election.

Councils ‘must re-build youth services'

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

| CYP Now

Councils must determine the future of youth services because government has lost focus on the agenda, a leading local authority figure has said.

Training pledge for volunteer youth workers

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

| CYP Now

Voluntary youth workers are to receive extra training and support as they increasingly take on roles that would have previously been carried out by professional staff, a charity has announced.

Public toilets to become youth club

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Friday, October 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Disused public toilets are to be converted into a drop-in youth centre after the idea was given the green light by planners in Dorset.

Specialist youth work roles under threat, claims NYA

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Friday, October 12, 2012

| CYP Now

Cuts to budgets and restructuring of provision have resulted in fewer specialist youth work roles, with staff being asked to carry out functions outside their area of expertise, it has been claimed.

Children's commissioner for Wales attacks youth service cuts

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

| CYP Now

The children's commissioner for Wales has called for urgent action to protect youth services, amid fears that young people are suffering as a result of swingeing cuts.