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• Tory cuts to English youth services fuelling crime, says Keir Starmer

  15-08-2021 23:30
  
  Labour leader highlights analysis showing cuts since 2011 were steepest in the most deprived areasCuts to youth services in England amounting to £660m over the past decade have fuelled antisocial behaviour and violent crime, Keir Starmer will say on Monday.The Labour leader said his experience as a former director of public prosecutions showed that youth workers, youth centres and other services aimed at young people were a key plank of early intervention against the causes of crime. Relat
  
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• Crisis in children’s services has its roots in austerity | Letters

  15-08-2021 18:24
  
  Readers respond to reports on the state of social care in England and lack of support for vulnerable familiesPatrick Butler is right that the pandemic has made the crisis in children’s social care “even more acute” (Crisis in children’s services in England is shocking if not surprising, 11 August). However, it is difficult to see how the government’s review of children’s social care will achieve the radical changes needed, for two reasons.First, it will requir
  
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