Your article rightly points out that Birmingham City Council has committed an extra £20m for children's social care in its draft 2015/16 budget (Staffing and funding problems threaten Birmingham recovery, warns troubleshooter, cypnow.co.uk, 12 December).
I believe that our youth service should be included in a multi-agency response to child safeguarding and child protection, but because our youth service has been victim to massive reductions over the past years, it now has little capacity to undertake this work.
Some additional resourcing and more of a joined-up thinking approach would allow further investment in a youth service that could greatly contribute to the important work the council undertakes to ensure that all children and young people are protected from abuse.
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