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A handful of local authorities have set up alternative delivery models to provide youth services in the last few years in a bid to ensure they can grow and become sustainable at a time where funding for youth services is shrinking.
Young Lambeth Co-operative (YLC) was one of the first of these. For nearly two years, the membership organisation has been commissioning youth services on behalf of, and in collaboration with, young people.
In 2012, Lambeth Council joined forces with young people and adults in the south London borough to find a new way of working. It was agreed that local people wanted more of a say over how money was spent and services run, and in April 2014, YLC was launched. Since April 2015, it has been managing, commissioning and evaluating services for five- to 19-year-olds (and up to 25 with a disability) under a contract with the council that runs until 2019.
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