Monday, December 03, 2018

900 #youth #worker jobs had been axed since 20l6 and more than £l3m sliced from youth services across the #UK.




...... as a Youth Worker this cuts to the bone. 
Not just for the workers but for the thousands of teens missing outside the home ‘adult role models’ and 
‘Informal #Educators’ now not on the streets building helping relationships ..........

....... Young people's futures are being put at risk because of cuts in youth services, including hundreds of job losses, a new report warns.

Unison said almost 900 #youth #worker jobs had been axed since 20l6 and more than £l3m sliced from youth services across the #UK. At least #l6o youth centres had closed in the past few years, leaving the service at "breaking point", said the union. 

Unison said a freedom ofinformation request to local authorities and research among youth workers suggested some 760 youth centres had been closed since 2012. 
Three out of four youth workers said they did not feel secure in their job and almost as many were putting in more than their contracted hours, said Unison ...... 





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