The chief executive of UK Youth on how the sector is struggling to survive the funding crisis caused by the pandemic
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What happens to the most vulnerable children when they are not at school? With figures from the National Education Union showing 900,000 pupils absent owing to “Covid incidents”, it’s a question we as a society have a duty to answer, insists Ndidi Okezie, the chief executive of the charity UK Youth.
“When young people are not at school and can’t be at home, it is youth work provision that scoops them up but now that sector is on its knees,” she explains.
