Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 32200

Youth Services

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 4 March 2025

Question

Gareth Snell

Labour (Co-op)Stoke-on-Trent Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's Statutory guidance for local authorities’ youth provision, published on 27 September 2023, what progress local authorities have made on conducting Needs assessm

Answer

Stephanie Peacock
Local Authorities have a statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people in their area. Although there is no legal requirement for local authoriti...

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