Government spending reviews can be intimidating. The biennial reviews set out Government spending plans for the following three years and are, by their very nature, complex, detailed and accompanied by endless side reports on specific issues.
This year's review, published last week, is no exception. The prospect of ploughing through a government equivalent of War and Peace is hardly appealing. But the importance to the youth sector of what is within those pages cannot be understated. The plans set out in the review will influence everyone who works with young people until the end of 2008, whether that be in statutory youth services, Connexions, youth justice, child and adolescent mental health services, or voluntary youth services.
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