At a conference last week, Jane Haywood, head of the department's children and youth division, said the green paper would be published "soon" but would not give a date. "The new ministers are spending a lot of time on it," she said. "There are almost daily meetings."
She said the voluntary sector would play a key role in the plans, not only delivering services but also commissioning them, "because they understand certain communities and certain people in a way that statutory services can't".
Haywood admitted that although youth service funding had increased during the past four years, there had still been cuts at a local level and where this had happened, there were clear problems with youth provision. "Where we have got youth work at the centre, it really contributes to the council's overall objectives," she said.
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