Youth Accelerator Fund

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Youth Accelerator Fund 1920.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 8th September 2023

The government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people.

The Youth Accelerator Fund increased positive activities for young people by providing extra sessions in youth clubs, delivered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s arm's-length bodies (ALBs) and UK Youth in the financial year 2019/20.

The department sets objectives for grant funding when designing the grant scheme and allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. ALBs funded through YAF were not responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of the awards beyond the fund’s lifetime. The department and its public bodies deliver all grant funding in line with the Government Functional Standard GovS 015: Grants.

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