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Proposed cuts to funding for youth and Sure Start services, the Pathway Fund, Bright Start will not now go ahead.As a result of budgetary pressures and the Stormont impasse, it was feared that cuts would have to be made to the vital services.In its statement the Department of Education said its budget for 2023/24 "has been cut by £66.4m compared to last year, despite rising costs and increasing demands for services, resulting in an estimated funding gap of around £382m".
Education Permanent Secretary Dr Mark Browne said: "The Department’s vision for all children is that they will be happy, learning and succeeding. Delivering on this is particularly challenging in the current budgetary context, especially in terms of addressing the needs of our most disadvantaged children and young people.
"Accordingly, having carefully considered all of the principles in the Secretary of State’s decision making guidance, I am not cutting funding to Youth services and a range of Early Years programmes including the Pathway Fund, Sure Start, Bright Start and Toybox.Mr Browne said decisions of that magnitude should not fall into the remit of his role.
"In considering the scale and cumulative impact of the proposed cuts, which represent a major change to long standing Ministerial programmes and policies, I am of the view that such a decision should be taken by a Minister, not a Permanent Secretary," he said.
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