The results were gathered from sample members of APYCO's executive committee, who represented a mixture of large and small services in urban and rural communities.
Measures outlined in the Transforming Youth Work: Resourcing Excellent Youth Services blueprint of December 2002 were implemented with an extra 5.9 per cent of core funding to build capacity. An additional 54m was also earmarked to extend the Transforming Youth Work Development Fund over three more years, support the voluntary sector and implement disability equality requirements.
Sushila Khoot, chair of APYCO and principal youth officer for Newham Youth Service in east London, said Transforming Youth Work had raised the profile of youth services with local authority elected members, and enabled services to build on existing initiatives and advance planned projects.
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