What are the costs of not addressing these issues/improving youth outcomes?

Background

In its mission to improve outcomes for young people, CSY has a need to better understand regional disparities, routes to developing young people’s skills and employability in conjunction with their health and wellbeing.

Next steps

Get in touch with csa@dcms.gov.uk

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DCMS areas of research interest GOV UK

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