Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 41545

Youth Services: Local Government

Tabled: 26 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal DemocratNewton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that local authorities are carrying out their statutory duty to deliver youth services.

Answer

Stephanie Peacock
Local authorities hold the statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people. Local Authorities fund youth services from their Local Government Sett...

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