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Today i presented a whistlestop tour of #youthwork in the UK to @TheCFEY team, including a look at funding... The headlines around closed youth centres and lost youth work jobs are pretty bleak, but i hadn't fully wrapped my head around some of the numbers until recently... 1/
Money for youth work has been being cut for over a decade. Since 2010, all regions in England have lost at least 60% of their funding for youth services, and some have lost all of it. Over 4,500 youth work jobs have been cut and 750 youth centres closed. 2/
I started a youth work degree in 2010, by the time i graduated in 2015 the youth service wasn't quite the same. Youth workers i worked alongside in placements were losing their jobs, or being retrained to provide more generic support and signposting to whole families. 3/
