Recruit 1,000 new youth workers from spring 2027
“This comes as the Government’s new £450 million Youth Matters programme will help prevent young people disengaging from work and education, by creating and improving youth spaces, increasing access to youth workers and delivering more face-to-face activities for young people from sport and music to volunteering and the arts, backed by a commitment to recruit 1,000 new youth workers from spring 2027.”
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Where it stands
The youth workers are part of the government's new £450 million Youth Matters programme, which the release says will create and improve youth spaces and deliver more face-to-face activities for young people. It gives a start, spring 2027, but no date by which all 1,000 will be in post, so the card has no deadline. The card moves when recruitment starts.
What has happened
- Oct 2026The government commits to recruit 1,000 new youth workers from spring 2027 under its £450 million Youth Matters programme, Promised
About the cost
The release gives £450 million for the Youth Matters programme as a whole, with no period and no figure for the youth workers, so no yearly figure is shown.
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