'Lost generation' warning over missing fund

By Dan Peters | 28 September 2021

A £500m fund first promised by the Government two years ago has still not been made available.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport was tasked in September 2019 with developing plans for a £500m youth investment fund to help build 60 new youth centres, refurbish around 360 existing facilities and provide more than 100 mobile facilities for harder-to-reach areas over five years.

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