Written questions

Youth Services: Finance

Commons · Question 32199 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record

Answered 7 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Gareth Snell

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities that have been issued a section 114 notice with the provision of youth work.

Answer

Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 7 Mar 2025

Local authorities hold the statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people. Local Authorities fund youth services from their Local Government Sett...