The North Belfast Youth Workers in Schools project, which works with disengaged young people, has come to the end of its three-year life span.
The majority of its funding came from the library board. Sam McDermott, senior youth worker at the Belfast Youth Service, said: "We are working with the Department of Education to try to get an extension to the programme."
Belfast Youth Service's ring-fenced budget of 3.2m has not been increased this year after the local library board overspent by more than 5m (YPN, 18-24 August 2004, p4).
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