Maria Eagle, junior children's minister, revealed the responses at a4Children conference last week. She said that many more young people hadresponded to the consultation, which ended last week, than othergroups.
Sports facilities and youth centres were the most sought-after, sheadded.
Eagle revealed little about how the Government would take the proposalsforward. But she stressed that she did not see opportunity cards as away of controlling young people. She mooted the idea of putting extracash on cards for disadvantaged children in a way that was "not visible"to their peers.
But the Children's Workforce Development Council said that withdrawingthe card, which acts like a reward card, from young people as apunishment for anti-social behaviour could prevent them from accessingthe services they needed.
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