Youth Services: Local Government
Commons · Question 41545 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that local authorities are carrying out their statutory duty to deliver youth services.
Answer
Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 3 Apr 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...