Camden Council is to create a charitable foundation to co-ordinate voluntary sector youth services in the London borough.
Through the Camden Young People’s Foundation, the council will work with the voluntary and community sector to attract alternative sources of funding for youth services and boost partnerships between private, voluntary and statutory providers.
The move was agreed in April as part of plans to reshape young people’s provision in Camden in an effort to save £1.6m from the £6m youth services budget. It followed an eight-week consultation on initial proposals that would have seen much deeper cuts to services and funding, but the council retreated after receiving nearly 500 responses.
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