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<p>The government recognises the vital role that youth services and the voluntary
and community sector has in reducing youth offending and the Beating Crime Plan 2021
highlighted the importance of early intervention for all young people; targeted support
for those at risk of involvement in criminality; and targeted interventions for those
who have started to offend.</p><p>The Youth Justice Sport Fund (YJSF) is a recently
completed early intervention grant programme led by the Ministry of Justice, delivered
across England and Wales between November 2022 and March 2023. This forms part of
the £300m package of early intervention funding that was announced in May 2022. The
£5m programme supported 220 voluntary and community sector organisations to work with
10–17-year-olds considered vulnerable to involvement in crime and anti-social behaviour,
using sport as a vehicle to address problem behaviour.</p><p>The government has committed
to a National Youth Guarantee: that by 2025, every young person will have access to
regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer.
This is supported by a three-year investment of over £500 million in youth services.
The Youth Investment Fund, an integral part of the National Youth Guarantee, will
invest over £300 million in creating and refurbishing up to 300 youth facilities in
levelling up priority areas - the majority of which contain at least one anti-social
behaviour hotspot. Additionally, through the Million Hours Fund, the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport will provide over a million hours of youth opportunities
in areas with high levels of anti-social behaviour. Phase 1 of the fund has already
delivered over £3m of funding to over 400 organisations to provide positive activities
over the summer holidays.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p>
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