My service is about improving the lives and outcomes of young people. Commercial models around procurement, outsourcing and competitive tendering might fit and work with other things like waste and highways. But when you are delivering a social outcome it is a different ball game.
At present, Surrey has 35 youth centres that we own and run - and we are under massive financial pressure. Our proposal is to retain their ownership, but we are going to second youth workers to voluntary sector organisations, which will be our "managing agents" that will run the centres. We are also going to give each youth centre the resources to deliver 15 hours of youth work per week and ask our voluntary sector providers to match that and provide another 15 hours for free.
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