Services for young people (youth centres, HAF, YIF) - Find a freedom of information request

Local authority's expenditure on children and young people's services. 

Please can you provide the information detailed below, in both the table, and the additional questions underneath this. 

Services for young people (youth centres, HAF, YIF)

1. What are the counts for the below items over the specified financial years?  

2016/17 

2017/18 

2018/19 

2019/20 

2020/21 

2021/22 

2022/23 

2. Overall number of council-ran youth centres in local authority  

3. Overall number of youth centres in local authority run by other organisations 

4. Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (Head count) 

5. Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (FTE) 

6. As part of the Section 251 Outturn submitted to Department for Education for the 2022/23 financial year, which budget line did your local authority include expenditure on Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme?

(e.g., 2.4.1 (Other specific grants); 3.5.2 Targeted services for young people)

Please specify if this changed between 2021/22 and 2022/23 financial years.

7. Did your local authority receive any of the Youth Investment Fund from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport? Yes/no 

If Yes:
8. How much money was received? 

9. Which Phase was this as part of? Phase 1 launched in January 2022 for small-scale projects; Phase 2 launched in August 2022 

10. What project(s) was YIF used for in your local authority? 

11. Was this a new-build or refurbishment/renovation of existing space? 

12Was this funding included as part of your Section 251 Outturn statement to DfE? If so, which budget line was this attributed to, and in which financial year? 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. 2021/22 HAF: £929,639 1st year of programme

2022/23 HAF: £2,643,655

2. See attached document – don’t have the breakdown for all the years requested

3. see attached document – don’t have the breakdown for all the years requested

4. LCC don’t have youth workers and youth support workers but do have Youth and Community Development workers and Senior Youth & Community Development workers of which we have 17

5. LCC don’t have youth workers and youth support workers but do have Youth and Community Development workers and Senior Youth & Community Development workers of which we have 10 FTE

6. We treat HAF as a specific grant in the S251 outturn statement, this means that in effect the expenditure and income are netted off and balance to zero, and our treatment did not change over this time period:

“2.4.1 Other specific grants Other specific grants, whether devolved or not devolved to schools. Include Delivering Better Value (DBV) expenditure and grant.

Do not include:

any grants relating to childcare

any ring-fenced grants such as the dedicated schools grant

any element of the pupil premium grant, which should not be entered anywhere on the form sixth form funding

Note that the early years pupil premium is part of the Early Years block budget and not part of the pupil premium grant and is to be included on the form under 1.0.1. COVID-19 related grants should also be excluded.

Where this line is used both the grant and the expenditure funded by the grant should be entered, so that the line nets to zero in all circumstances (local authorities should be planning to spend all of the grant, since the grant cannot be used for any other purpose).”

7. No

8-12. N/a

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