Youthlink Wales said the action aims to prove that, by removing its funding, the Welsh Assembly Government is not meeting its legal obligations to provide disadvantaged young people with drugs education. The action is being led by a group of young peer mentors.
Tim Phillips, national co-ordinator of Youthlink Wales, said: "Our work is aimed at young people who don't attend school or who refuse to listen to the prevention lectures by the police, those who are the most likely to become serious drug users."
Youthlink Wales, which works with 20,000 14- to 25-year-olds a year across Wales, received about 100,000 a year from the Welsh Assembly Government since its launch in 1985. Its grant was stopped in March. The Government said this is owing to "significant changes in the way our substance misuse policy is delivered".
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