The Community and Youth Workers' Union plans the events in Northamptonshire, where councillors are considering making virtually all youth workers redundant (YPN, 11-17 January, p2), and Liverpool, where youth workers are fighting a plan to remove Joint Negotiating Committee terms and conditions (YPN, 18-24 January, p3).
Both events, to take place in the next two months, aim to gather national support. The union is gathering details of youth services that are most at risk. Among the authorities giving concern are Suffolk, Lancashire, Northumberland and the Isle of Wight.
Doug Nicholls, the union's general secretary, said: "As youth services go into combined children and young people's services, they are inheriting the overspend of social services. Because youth services are not statutory, they get hit first."
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