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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

Labour spending less on youth work than Tories did, analysis shows

Bored teenagers hanging around a playground
The number of local authority-run youth centres in England almost halved between 2012 and 2023. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The Labour government is spending less on youth work in England than the Conservatives did after a decade of cuts, despite the prime minister’s commitment to “backing young people”, analysis has found.

The UK’s biggest youth work charity said “warm words won’t pay for youth workers” as it called on the government to urgently increase spending on a sector that has been “decimated” by austerity.

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