Clarke's actions are laudable, if motivated more by a desire to take the heat off central government rather than some Damascene conversion to transparency as regards public spending. And it also begs an obvious question: if this transparency is good enough for education, why isn't it good enough for the youth service? As we all know, it has long been a bone of contention with youth services that the full allocation of money doesn't get through the local authority system to them.
One of the main points of December's Transforming Youth Work: Resourcing Excellent Youth Services initiative was to put mechanisms in place to make sure authorities actually spend the cash they are allocated for youth work on youth work - including the additional 59m of core funding the Government threw into the pot at the same time. Ivan Lewis, minister for young people, proudly proclaimed: "Now we have the power to intervene."
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