My charity WISE (Wales Ireland Scotland England) Communities was interested in exploring the possibility of taking over the running of both Ashford and Sunbury youth centres in the borough of Spelthorne, as we were given to understand that Surrey County Council is looking at handing the running of these centres over to interested parties (YPN, 5-11 April 2006, p5).
But youth workers and young people might just have to pray for a unitary authority or a merger into Greater London, because Surrey County Council does not appear to want to let go.
It is control-freakery at its most destructive, because the people who suffer in the end are the users of the centres.
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