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<p>Youth services and their strategic partners provide crucial preventative and targeted
interventions and are an important partner in the strategy to tackle serious violence.</p><p>
</p><p>My Department allocated over £863m between 2014/15 and 2018/19 to youth programmes
providing positive activities for young people.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office’s £200m
Youth Endowment Fund will deliver a ten-year programme of grants enabling interventions
targeted at those who are most at risk of involvement in crime and violence in England
and Wales. This follows an investment of £22m by the Home Office between 2018/19 and
2019/20 through the Early Intervention Youth Fund to support community services which
deter young people from violent crime.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Government will
continue to work together closely to implement the Home Office’s Serious Violence
Strategy.</p>
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