Budget 2023-24: Youth Sevices

We asked

As part of the budget consultation exercise for the 2023-24 budget, a budget proposal for a budget reduction in Youth Services was put forward. This included the closure of Pilgrim Street Arts Centre, a reduction in play scheme budgets and/or reducing spend on youth centres.

You said and we did

Almost 73% of the responses either disagreed or strongly disagreed with the proposals. The option to reduce the Youth Services budget was therefore removed from the final budget proposals set before Budget P&R Committee on 15 February 2023, and taken for final ratification at Budget Council on 27 February 2023.

The budget page is here.