At 2pm on Saturday 12th February there will be a live webcast of a rally at which 1,000 young people and their youth workers representing 100,000s of users and staff will join forces to get government to think again, as funding cuts threaten to wipe out the youth service all together.You can watch how young people and Unite will rise to the challenge to stop these cuts. The day will focus on how to organise campaigns to stop the cuts with a session from a 12 year old campaigner from the prime minister's Witney constituency who has been working tirelessly to save his local youth club. At 2pm on Saturday 12th February log on here.
The assault on young people’s services will have a devastating effect on their hopes for the future and will have far reaching effects on communities and the economy.
- Cuts of the scale proposed are a sure-fire way to deepen social problems in months and years to come.
- The roll call of services at risk of closure is growing daily. Warwickshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Manchester city council now plan to scrap its youth service.
- Those services include: youth clubs, youth programmes, Connexions centres and youth counselling centres. 82 per cent of voluntary sector youth groups anticipate that they will have to close whole projects.
7,000 professionally qualified staff… 30,000 trained youth support workers… half a million volunteers……Britain’s youth services are world class. They’re far too good to lose.
But nearly every project working with 13-18 year olds is at risk. It’s not too late to tell the decision makers that they’ve got their priorities wrong. Send them a clear message: a message that Youth Services Change Lives.
To find out more about Unite's campaign to save youth services click here.
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