YES - Bob Mardle, co-ordinator for detached and street-based youth work in Nuneaton, Warwickshire County Council
Being made a statutory service would change the ethos, but in a positive way. It would lead to a better understanding of the delivery of a professional service for young people and give us the funding that would match our requirements.
Both these things have been on our agenda for many years and now such an opportunity is on the horizon, we should grasp it. Extra resources would bring more freedom rather than less.
I would support any move to make youth services statutory, mainly because it would help stop money being siphoned off from youth service budgets into education departments. If we had a statutory service and we spent the money allocated to us, we wouldn't need to go cap in hand to other organisations and tick lots of boxes labelling the young people we work with as antisocial or at risk.
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