Heading the list was Kensington and Chelsea, spending more than 260 a head per year. Then followed Islington with 174 and Wandsworth with 166. At the bottom of the spending league were Portsmouth and Hampshire, whose young people had less than 30 each spent on services for them.
The message was that the Government was happy to see a light shone on how individual councils were investing in youth services, says Tom Wylie, chief executive of The National Youth Agency (NYA). Wylie had the habit at that time of publicly calling for spending levels equivalent to the price of a cappuccino a week for each young person.
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