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<p>Following the 2021 Spending Review, we are investing £560 million in youth services
in England over the next 3 years, including the Youth Investment Fund and ongoing
support for the National Citizen Service. This will transform the government’s offer
for young people and level up opportunities right across the country.</p><p>£368 million
of our investment has been dedicated to the Youth Investment Fund, which will see
45 local authorities and around 600 district wards in deprived parts of England eligible
to apply, paving the way for up to 300 youth facilities to be built or redeveloped
over the next three years.</p><p>The areas qualifying for the Youth Investment Fund
were chosen on the basis of need using publicly available data sources. The data sets
chosen were local authority level rates of young people not in Education or Employment
(NEET), the proportion of children living in low income households from the Index
of Multiple Deprivation (IDACI scores), and the returns from local authorities to
government on the levels of spend on youth services (Section 251 data).</p><p>The
details of how this formula has been applied are available on the GOV.UK website.</p><p>
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