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<p>Our priority in the pandemic has been to stabilise youth charities and help them
through the impact of this, so that they are in a position to deliver the outcomes
envisaged for young people through the Youth Investment Fund (YIF). We have achieved
this through our unprecedented charity sector package, from which £100 million has
gone to organisations supporting children and young people during the pandemic, including
£15.6 million through the Youth Covid Support Fund which provided emergency funding
specifically for youth services.</p><p>Following the 2021 Spending Review, we are
investing £560 million in youth services in England, including the Youth Investment
Fund and ongoing support for the National Citizen Service.</p><p>Access to youth facilities
is not felt equally, with young people in many parts of the country struggling to
gain access to them. The YIF will seek to remedy this, creating and expanding youth
facilities to level up opportunity in left behind places, giving young people access
to support from youth workers and enabling them to engage in beneficial activities.
Full details of the YIF's eligibility criteria will be announced in due course.</p><p>Government
funding for the National Youth Agency has led to an increase in qualified youth workers
and sustained professional standards within the youth work sector. Over the past two
years we have worked with the National Youth Agency to help more than 900 youth workers
gain qualifications and institute a new youth work apprenticeship. Through these joint
endeavours we have supported the renewal of a range of national standards, qualifications
and training programmes for youth work.</p><p><strong><strong></strong><br></strong></p>
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