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- A new report, Overlooked: young people and rural youth services, makes clear there are vast gaps in local youth services. Hardest hit are the 2.2 million young people living in predominantly rural areas, living in villages, towns and coastal areas. They are consistently overlooked and, so far, missing from the government’s levelling up agenda.
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May 17, 2023 · While the £560m National Youth Guarantee included in last year’s Levelling Up white paper will be helpful, failing to engage young people in the policy design is a misstep that will likely blunt its impact.
Hardest hit are the 2.2 million young people living in predominantly rural areas, living in villages, towns and coastal areas. They are consistently overlooked and, so far, missing from the government’s levelling up agenda.
May 20, 2022 · The paper argues that young people must not be forgotten in the levelling up agenda - as they are the next generation - and if levelling up is to have a meaningful impact on the lives of young people in deprived communities throughout the UK resources must be targeted at them. ( Adcock, 2021 ).
Jun 27, 2022 · Government plans to "level up" cities around the UK will cost billions more than thought, a think tank has said. Research by the Resolution Foundation found differences in income across the...
- Ministerial Foreword
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Summary Findings
- Government’S Response
- Annex A: Methodology
- Annex B - Online Survey Engagement Data
As we recover from the pandemic, we face a unique opportunity to build back better. Young people need to be at the heart of those efforts. They have sacrificed a great deal during COVID-19 - and those sacrifices have had a serious impact on their mental health and wellbeing. Anxiety levels are at a 12-year high, young people have seen the largest i...
The Youth Sector is a diverse landscape made up of a rich and varied range of youth and community organisations, Local Authority run services, professional youth workers and volunteers, providing young people with somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to outside of school. The sector has faced significant challenges in response to th...
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is responsible for out-of-school youth policy and programmes, supporting the youth sector to deliver high quality services to young people, and funding the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme. More broadly, DCMS and its Arms Length Bodies create further opportunities for young people ...
Importance of Youth provision to Young people
Young people told us youth services and youth clubs are hugely important to them. They provide an opportunity to meet people outside of school and engage with other young people from different backgrounds. This allows the formation of new friendships and socialising. Youth services allow young people to “be around friends in a safe space and be themselves”. Not only do these spaces feel like “a second family”, they provide the opportunity to speak to someone from outside the home and school e...
What young people told us they enjoy?
1. Having something fun to do after school/in the holidays/on weekends 2. Making new friends 3. Learning new skills 4. Having a place to go for young people outside of school 5. Being able to meet people from different background and mix with different cultures 6. Having a place where I can be myself 7. Being able to participate in lots of different activities 8. Social interaction and coming together to create something
Youth services during the pandemic
During the pandemic, young people said the youth sector adapted to keep supporting them, providing digital and virtual services when physical ones were not possible. Young people really valued this, highlighting: 1. the ability to keep connected to other young people 2. providing a space to have fun 3. opportunities to develop new skills, and have their voices heard, for example as part of the UK Youth Parliament. However, many young people reported that it did not replace the need for in per...
As we emerge from the pandemic young people deserve a youth offer that addresses their challenges and provides exciting, life changing experiences and opportunities. We will invest £560 million of funding over the next 3 years delivering a Youth Guarantee that reflects young people’s priorities, with a firm focus on levelling up. The Youth Guarante...
Engaging young people
A number of methods were used to gather the views of young people as part of the youth review:
As part of the Youth Review we engaged with a large number of young people. We were able to gather the data of those young people who participated in the survey. Data on the young person population in England has been taken from the Office for National Statistics Mid Year Estimates (2016, 2019). Ethnicity data we have gathered is based on the 2011 ...
Feb 2, 2022 · It is a quintessential English town but local politicians say it needs levelling up. Last year, a bid for £6m of levelling up money to regenerate part of the town was rejected.
Feb 2, 2022 · Responding, Gove says he disagrees with Winter and insists the government’s levelling up strategy was welcomed by locals when he visited Wales recently. The debate on levelling up has now...
