Written questions

Youth Services: Finance

Commons · Question 45227 · Tabled 8 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record

Answered 25 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 41541 on Youth Services: Finance, if she will issue new guidance to local authorities on the provision of youth services in the context of propo

Answer

Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 25 Apr 2025

In 2023, DCMS published updated statutory guidance to support local authorities’ understanding of the existing statutory duty on the provision of youth services and how to deliver it. That duty, and therefore local authorities’ responsibilities, have not ...