It follows the Northern Ireland Executive's draft budget, which proposed to reduce funding for youth work by 4.8 per cent in 2008/09, prompting Doug Nicholls, national secretary for youth workers at the union Unite, to describe the allocation as "a kick in the teeth" (CYP Now, 7-13 November 2007).
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