This post focuses on some of the Labour government’s overarching youth policy priorities since it came to power in July 2024 – a key issue for addressing the blog’s overall stated purpose of updating developments affecting open youth work practice. It particularly evidences and analyses the continuing severe financial constraints on ‘youth services’ in England; outlines some of the youth sector’s responses and initiatives; analyses government proposals for implementing and indeed extending these services; and considers the ways in which it says it will fund them. read more