Children services budgets and youth service provision
Case reference FOI2022/01130
Published 22 September 2022
Request
Services covered under youth work include youth centres, youth clubs (drop in sessions), open access provision, targeted provision, mobile youth work, etc.
1. What was the expenditure for the following financial years / budget for those upcoming (or counts, where relevant)? 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Overall budget for children's and young people's services
Overall budget for children and young people's services for ages 13-19 and young people up to age 25 with a disability if recorded?
Overall budget for youth services
Overall number of youth centres in local authority
Number of allocated places for young people in youth centres (if recorded)
Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (Head count/FTE)
2. What is the current balance of expenditure between council provided services and alternative provision of children and young people services (with a focus on a budget for ages 13-19 and young people up to age 25 with a disability if recorded)? 2021/22 financial year, although if the previous years' data as per Q1 are easily available within the time allocation of the FOI request, that would be great.
3. Please state whether directly employed youth workers are employed on JNC, NJC, SJC, or other terms and conditions (please specify):
a. JNC for Youth and Community Workers
b. National Joint Council (NJC)
c. Scottish Joint Council (SJC)
d. Other (please specify)
e. No direct youth provision
4. Please supply a copy of the current youth service staffing structure showing the grade and rate of pay, gender and race for each post. Please attach a copy of this separately to your email response and state below whether it is attached or not.
Response
1. What was the expenditure for the following financial years / budget for those upcoming (or counts, where relevant)?
2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Overall budget for children's and young people's services
Overall budget for children and young people's services for ages 13-19 and young people up to age 25 with a disability if recorded?
Please see the attached spreadsheet.
Please note that expenditure cannot be spilt by the age groups that you have requested, but we have provided budgets and total actual spend for the three groups.
Budgets have not been set for the 2023/24 financial year.
Overall budget for youth services
The council does not have a budget for youth services based on your above definition of the activities that should be included in this.
Overall number of youth centres in local authority
There are no youth centres.
Number of allocated places for young people in youth centres (if recorded)
N / A there are no youth centres.
Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (Head count/FTE)
0
2. What is the current balance of expenditure between council provided services and alternative provision of children and young people services (with a focus on a budget for ages 13-19 and young people up to age 25 with a disability if recorded)?
2021/22 financial year, although if the previous years' data as per Q1 are easily available within the time allocation of the FOI request, that would be great.
We are unable to split the expenditure into council provided services and alternative provisions. Likewise we are unable to narrow down expenditure to the age groups specified in your request. Please see the attached spreadsheet for details of the total expenditure for this financial year.
3. Please state whether directly employed youth workers are employed on JNC, NJC, SJC, or other terms and conditions (please specify):
a. JNC for Youth and Community Workers
b. National Joint Council (NJC)
c. Scottish Joint Council (SJC)
d. Other (please specify)
e. No direct youth provision
N / A
4. Please supply a copy of the current youth service staffing structure showing the grade and rate of pay, gender and race for each post. Please attach a copy of this separately to your email response and state below whether it is attached or not.
The council does not have a youth service.
Documents
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