If you listen carefully, you might be able to hear the sound of hundreds of youth service managers carefully clicking edit, copy, paste.
As the deadline looms for this year's youth service plans, these three Microsoft Office commands have become something of a ritual for managers all over the country.
This is the first year that all youth services will be producing a plan in line with a national framework. But don't let that fool you into thinking this is something new. Local authorities have had years of practice at writing plans. At the last count, some 80 were required across local government.
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