The youth service is meeting community voluntary organisations this week to discuss the programme, Beyond Midnight, which it hopes to finalise by December and launch in April 2006. It has applied for Single Regeneration Budget funding.
Yousiff Meah, head of Birmingham Youth Service, said: The programme will enable the service to work with older young people. Not all young people have a chance to build a relationship with us. Meah added that the service is working with the local army recruitment office to provide activities and will also have a mobile resource centre. Negotiations are taking place with the police to make resources available in dispersal zones, he said.
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