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Inclusion, education, representation, cake, lipstick. Permanently covered in glitter & cat hair. Youth & community worker turned researcher at @TheCFEY. She/her
Dec 14, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
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/