Youth club closures led to increased offending and worse GCSE results – IFS

The IFS paper found that those who lost access to a youth club were 14% more likely to engage in criminal activity in the six years following closure (Alamy/PA) -

Youth club closures during the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GCSE results, a report has suggested.

The impact on educational outcomes as a result of the closures was even more severe for pupils entitled to free school meals, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) research.