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Youth Centres: Closures

Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UIN HL1554, tabled on 5 September 2016

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many youth centres have been closed since 2010 and what assessment they have made of the impact of those closures on young people.

Answered on

16 September 2016

It is the responsibility of local authorities to decide how to allocate funding for youth services, according to local need. Individual local authorities would be best placed to advise on any changes there have been to the number of youth centres in their local area.