Administered by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the group consists of representatives from local government, youth services, unions, the voluntary sector and other parties. It is credited in some quarters with influencing Margaret Hodge's decision to cut the Resourcing Excellent Youth Services accreditation target from 60 per cent to 30 per cent.
But the clear signal coming from the DfES at the latest get-together was that take-up of the 10m allocated in Resourcing Excellent Youth Services under the Transforming Youth Work Development Fund for 2003-04 was low. Some local authorities hadn't claimed the amounts they were entitled to and it looked as though an embarrassing underspend was on the cards.
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