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Services for Young People

I do not want to enter too much into a private quarrel, but surely the fact is that Positive for Youth is in most respects a perfectly good strategic document. The Select Committee report is extremely good in its analysis of some of the weaknesses of the Government's approach to youth services, but the point is that wherever young people are brought together, the single message they give is: ““We are not overly bothered about the reports you produce. We are bothered about the actual youth work that is available and the activities that are accessible to us in our communities.”” That is what they tell us, and it is what they tell virtually every MP who is faced with closures and cuts in their youth services.