Youth Services
Commons · Question 32200 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Gareth Snell
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's Statutory guidance for local authorities’ youth provision, published on 27 September 2023, what progress local authorities have made on conducting Needs assessm
Answer
Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 4 Mar 2025
Local Authorities have a statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people in their area. Although there is no legal requirement for local authoriti...