The appointee will oversee the teams and develop policy for integrated and targeted adolescent services, and will report to the assistant director for children's social care services.
Bromley brought its youth service in-house last year when a 10-year contract with Prospects was terminated early to ease the transition to children's trusts (YPN, 12-18 April 2006, p5).
Susie Roberts, chair of the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers, said: "This job title was very common in the past as part of a social work model."
- www.bromley.gov.uk.
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