Youth service managers, Connexions advisers and youth offending team workers came together last week at the first joint conference held by the groups that represent them.
The event - held by the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers (APYCO), National Association of Connexions Partners, and Association of Youth Offending Team Managers - was in part a recognition of the changing nature of services for young people. And the integration of services through children's trusts was high on the agenda.
Since Every Child Matters outlined the need for services based around the needs of children and young people, rather than services children and young people have to fit into, the overall direction of policy has been towards closer co-operation between services.
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