The facility will be based at Joseph Leckie Community Technology College and will provide a range of activities for young people as well as access to support services. The centre will eventually become the flagship of the borough’s new Integrated Young People’s Support Services.
Plans to develop the Myplace-funded initiative had been shelved in December following a review of projects by the Department for Education. But the council managed to overturn the decision after appealing directly to children’s minister Tim Loughton.
CYP Now reported in November 2009 that initial plans to develop a centre in Walsall were on hold because of fears over the centre’s long-term viability.
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