What is the new National Youth Strategy?

Описание: Young people have suffered a "lost decade" and have been "left as collateral damage", according to the prime minister.

They were the first generation to grow up online, which experts say has affected their mental health, and they lost some of their best years to the coronavirus pandemic. Now a million of them are out of work or education.

It's a problem for the economy and for their wellbeing - but the government thinks it has part of the solution: youth clubs.

Between 2010 and 2023, local government spending on youth services fell by 73%, with more than 1,000 youth centres closing and over 4,500 youth worker roles being lost.

In response to that "lost decade", Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy have unveiled their National Youth Strategy.

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