Government has halved the youth capital fund - which gives councilsmoney to fund new facilities developed in consultation with young people- to 13m half-way through the final year of the programme.
David Wright, chief executive of the Confederation of Heads of YoungPeople's Services, said many councils have already spent funds inadvance to ensure they met deadlines and no money went to waste.
"Councils have started schemes early in anticipation of the funding toensure they are complete on time," said Wright. "But now there is a riskthat youth services will foot the bill and will have to find money fromelsewhere when it is already scarce."
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