Annual Audit 2006-07

The NYA Annual Audit collects information on expenditure, workforce and outcomes from local authority youth services. It focuses on the youth service managed through the local authority.

NYA Audit 2006-07

Key points from the latest available Audit data, the financial year 2006-07 are summarised below. The national report, the associated benchmarking tables and accompanying analysis notes can be downloaded separately below.

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  • Spending on local authority youth services reported to The NYA by the 140 responding authorities amounted to £371million. This is £26 million more than for the 142 responding authorities in 2005-06, an increase of eight per cent.
  • The average share of spending on youth services from education budgets dropped from 1.12 per cent to 1.05 per cent.
  • On average local authorities spent £84 per head on their 13-19 youth population (net expenditure), an increase of £4 per head on 2005-06.
  • Spending in addition to total local authority youth spending (without income) amounted to £152m, 41% of the £371m mainstream youth service expenditure. When included it brings average spending on the 13-19 youth population to £120 per head.
  • Approximately £34m was given in grant aid (£18.4m) and through contract arrangements (£15.2m) to the voluntary and community sector, an average of 9% of total local authority youth service spending. A further total of £5.4m was provided as grant in kind to the voluntary and community sector.
  • There were a total of 9,918 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed in the responding services in 2006-07. This compares with 10,225 FTE staff employed in the responding services in 2005-06.
  • There were 7,480 FTE delivery staff (professional youth workers, other qualified youth workers and youth support workers) working in 2006-07 in the responding services, a decrease of 4% compared with 7,804 in the 142 responding services in 2005-06.
  • The 140 responding local authority youth services employed a total of 3,695 professionally qualified youth workers, equivalent to 3,169 full-time posts. These figures do not include youth support workers. This is a slight decrease of 3% on the 3,270 qualified youth workers (the equivalent category) in responding services in 2005-06.The number of FTE management posts increased by four per cent to 878 in 2006-07.
  • The number of FTE administration posts decreased slightly by one per cent to 1560.
  • FTE volunteers increased by 3 per cent in 2006-07 to 493 from 479 in the previous year.
  • The median average authority contacted 28 per cent of its 13-19 youth population, half a per cent more than the rate in the previous year. The median average participation rate was 17%, above the 15% benchmark.
  • Sixty-three authorities met or exceeded the 60% benchmark for participants gaining a recorded outcome (46% of 138 respondents) compared to 49 (35% of 142) authorities in 2005-06.
  • Thirty-nine authorities met or exceeded the 30% benchmark for participants gaining an accredited outcome (28% of 138 respondents) compared to 26 (18% of 142) authorities in 2005-06.

NYA Audit 2006-07England’s Local Authority Youth Services The NYA Audit 2006-07 National Report (May 2008)

Tables containing workforce and outcomes data for all responding local authority youth services:

Outcomes Comparative Data NYA Audit 2006-07Outcomes Comparative Data NYA Audit 2006-07

Workforce Comparative Data - NYA Audit 2006-07Workforce Comparative Data - NYA Audit 2006-07

Outcomes Comparative Data (w.o ranks) - NYA Audit 2006-07Outcomes Comparative Data (w.o ranks) - NYA Audit 2006-07

Future Audits

Following a better than expected response to the 2006-07 Audit, we are keen to collect data for 2007-08 as soon as possible. A letter and accompanying forms will be sent out to youth services soon. The data to be collected will be consistent with the 2006-07 collection but the design of the forms and the guidance is likely to change.

We understand that youth services and software providers are keen to know about the provision of data for 2008-9. We have had discussions with stakeholders and are seeking greater clarification from funding organisations. We will provide as much information as we can on these pages as soon as possible.

If you would like to contribute to discussions about how the audit should change contact Ross Little.

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