Subject to the outcome, the Government then wants to introduce legislation "as soon as Parliamentary time allows".
It is intended that local authorities will implement a large proportion of the measures in the green paper. And last week education secretary Charles Clarke welcomed the extra 100m provisionally allocated to local authorities for safeguarding children in their finance settlement. It has to be shared out between 150 local authorities and covers at least five different categories of services, so it's not happy days yet. But it is new money and 90m could in theory go to youth services. It's the nearest the Government has come so far to saying, "here's some new money to implement the measures in the green paper".
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