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Annual Audit

The NYA' Local Authority Youth Services 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 Annual Audit 2007-08

Key points from the latest available Audit data, the financial year 2007-08, are summarised below. The national report, the associated benchmarking tables and accompanying audit analysis notes can be downloaded separately below. Responding authorities reported total mainstream spending on local authority youth services of £316million in 2007-08. This was an average of £2.22m per local authority area compared with £2.15m for the previous year.

  • On average, total gross expenditure per head of the 13-19 youth population was £119, one pound per head less than in 2006-07. On average, total net expenditure, which excludes other sources of funding levered in by services, was £84 per head of the 13-19 youth population, the same as for the previous year.
  • There were 8,273 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed in the responding services in 2007-08, an average of 46.5 per authority (compared with 51.0 in 2006-07).
  • There were 2,873 FTE professionally qualified youth workers in 2007-08, an average of 15.7 per authority (compared with 16.0 in 2006-07).
  • Despite the lower response rate by local authorities, the total number of volunteers in the local authority sector increased by eight per cent to 5,447 from 5,026. The total number of FTE volunteers more than doubled (118%) to 1,073 in 2007-08, from 493 in 2006-07.
  • The average service contacted 28 per cent of its 13-19 youth population, the same as the previous year. The average participation rate was 17 per cent, above the 15 per cent benchmark.
  • Over half of responding authorities (64, 53%) met or exceeded the benchmark for participants gaining a recorded outcome, compared with 46% the previous year.
  • Almost four in ten respondents (35, 39%) met or exceeded the 30% benchmark for participants gaining an accredited outcome, compared with almost three in ten (28%) for the previous year.

Please note: Amendments to data made by authorities following the production of individual authority reports have been reflected in the national report and the benchmarking tables. Updated local reports have been sent to all authorities.

Previous year's audit results are available on request.

Also of interest:

Recording Young People's Progress and Accreditation in Youth Work - Wendy Flint (Dec 2005)

This is the third edition of Credit Where It’s Due and the accompanying Frequently Asked Questions, initially developed in June 2004 by The NYA in discussion with the Department for Education and Skills and revised in October 2004 following field trials. In this revision the guidance has been brought in line with the Best Value Performance Indicators and the Frequently Asked Questions considerably expanded.