A partnership between Public Health and the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioners Office has made match funding available for youth work settings. Youth settings may apply in partnership with education settings, each applying for funding.

Eligible youth settings are those that deliver youth work, where the objective is related to social, personal and emotional development for young people, aged 12 to 19 years. This includes special education and alternative provision youth settings for young people with behavioural challenges or disabilities (up to age 24 years for young people with SEND).

Grants can be used for a wide variety of purposes to deliver crime prevention benefit via youth service settings. This includes projects delivering youth work via physical activity (e.g., sports, outdoor physical activity) or mental health (e.g., social, emotional and personal development) both universally but also through targeted work.

Applications will be accepted up to the end of December 2024 subject to funding, to be spent by March 2025. More information can be accessed here: Public Health Youth Innovation Grant | Worcestershire County Council