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1366985

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date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services: Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what additional support she will make available for youth services for young people with SEND requirements.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>DCMS’ youth policies focus on providing a universal offer, ensuring local youth provision is accessible for all young people including those with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) requirements. DCMS will be investing £560 million in youth services in England over the next three years, including ongoing support for the National Citizen Service (NCS).</p><p>Programmes such as the NCS offer additional support by extending their age range for young people with SEND requirements up to 25. The NCS programme also attracts a greater proportion of young people with SEND requirements (10.4% of 2021 participants had SEND compared to 1.8% of the population in the same age group) and shows a stronger positive impact on their confidence*.</p><p>* In The Mix with NCS: A sub-group analysis of the NCS Survey 2016 &amp; 2017 data, Jump Projects Limited and MIME Consulting Limited, 2019</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/11/2021 10:49:04 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366986

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he will take to help local authorities determine their priorities for youth services provision.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>Earlier this year, DCMS conducted a Youth Review to ensure that our spending, policy and programmes meet the needs of young people. The review heard from over 6,000 young people and 120 youth organisations. The findings will be published shortly. DCMS is also committed to completing the review of the Local Authority Statutory Duty for Youth Services, previously paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, the results will give a clear direction for our out-of-school youth agenda for all partners providing youth services, including Local Authorities.</p><p>To support the youth workforce, DCMS funds the National Youth Agency to set professional standards, qualifications and a curriculum for youth work, including a new youth work apprenticeship and free-to-access training. DCMS bursaries have fully-funded hundreds of individuals to gain youth work qualifications who otherwise may have been excluded due to cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 71379 71380 71384 71386 71387 question first answered 15/11/2021 10:06:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366987

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to encourage a partnership approach between statutory services and the voluntary sector to provide local youth services.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>The government recognises that local youth provision relies on a mix of statutory and voluntary sector provision. The Youth Investment Fund will seek to build on locally available provision and will encourage bids that show all partners working together to maximise the impact of investment. In addition, the National Citizen Service (NCS) delivery model supports partnership working between the NCS Trust and voluntary sector to deliver the NCS programme. In 2021, 36% of NCS contracts were delivered by partners in the charity sector.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/11/2021 10:51:19 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366988

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of a statutory youth service.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>Earlier this year, DCMS conducted a Youth Review to ensure that our spending, policy and programmes meet the needs of young people. The review heard from over 6,000 young people and 120 youth organisations. The findings will be published shortly. DCMS is also committed to completing the review of the Local Authority Statutory Duty for Youth Services, previously paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, the results will give a clear direction for our out-of-school youth agenda for all partners providing youth services, including Local Authorities.</p><p>To support the youth workforce, DCMS funds the National Youth Agency to set professional standards, qualifications and a curriculum for youth work, including a new youth work apprenticeship and free-to-access training. DCMS bursaries have fully-funded hundreds of individuals to gain youth work qualifications who otherwise may have been excluded due to cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 71379 71380 71382 71386 71387 question first answered 15/11/2021 10:06:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366989

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a form of accreditation for people who volunteer with youth services to recognise the skills they gain and provide through their work.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>Accreditation, skills acquisition and facilitating routes into employment are among many factors that may motivate an individual to volunteer. An <a href="https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/media/insights/documents/CCSF-Impact-Eval_Final_Report.pdf" target="_blank">evaluation of the Coronavirus Community Support Fund</a> found almost all of those who volunteered for an organisation that received funding reported at least one positive benefit to themselves, including 39% reporting skills development.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-report-on-volunteer-passports" target="_blank">DCMS research</a> has found that existing schemes to record volunteer training and skills, alongside wider functions such as ID verification, have emerged in response to the particular needs of a sector and there is little uniformity.</p><p>This suggests that any accreditation scheme would be best considered at a local level rather than national, and should account for the considerable diversity of volunteers, their activities and motivations, and the organisations they engage with.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/11/2021 10:46:16 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366990

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what on-going training she will make available for staff and volunteers working in youth work.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>Earlier this year, DCMS conducted a Youth Review to ensure that our spending, policy and programmes meet the needs of young people. The review heard from over 6,000 young people and 120 youth organisations. The findings will be published shortly. DCMS is also committed to completing the review of the Local Authority Statutory Duty for Youth Services, previously paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, the results will give a clear direction for our out-of-school youth agenda for all partners providing youth services, including Local Authorities.</p><p>To support the youth workforce, DCMS funds the National Youth Agency to set professional standards, qualifications and a curriculum for youth work, including a new youth work apprenticeship and free-to-access training. DCMS bursaries have fully-funded hundreds of individuals to gain youth work qualifications who otherwise may have been excluded due to cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 71379 71380 71382 71384 71387 question first answered 15/11/2021 10:06:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366991

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she will take to encourage adults to retrain to work in youth work.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>Earlier this year, DCMS conducted a Youth Review to ensure that our spending, policy and programmes meet the needs of young people. The review heard from over 6,000 young people and 120 youth organisations. The findings will be published shortly. DCMS is also committed to completing the review of the Local Authority Statutory Duty for Youth Services, previously paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, the results will give a clear direction for our out-of-school youth agenda for all partners providing youth services, including Local Authorities.</p><p>To support the youth workforce, DCMS funds the National Youth Agency to set professional standards, qualifications and a curriculum for youth work, including a new youth work apprenticeship and free-to-access training. DCMS bursaries have fully-funded hundreds of individuals to gain youth work qualifications who otherwise may have been excluded due to cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 71379 71380 71382 71384 71386 question first answered 15/11/2021 10:06:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366992

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much and what proportion of her departmental budget is allocated to supporting local authority provided youth services.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>Local Authorities have a statutory duty to allocate funding to youth services in line with local need. This is funded from the Local Government settlement, which was over £12 billion this year. The 2021 Spending Review announced an additional £560 million investment in youth services in England, including via the Youth Investment Fund and National Citizen Service, with a firm focus on levelling up.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/11/2021 10:57:23 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366993

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services: Holiday Activities and Food Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of coordinating the provision of youth services with the Holiday and Food Activities Programme.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>DCMS and the Department for Education work closely on the development of youth funding across the ministerial portfolios, including the Holiday and Food Activities Programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 16/11/2021 14:50:55 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell