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A key figure in youth services called for funding to accompany the forthcoming youth green paper today, writes Amy Taylor from Harrogate.

Speaking at the annual Local Government Association conference in Harrogate, Viv McKee, director of development at the National Youth Agency, said that some capital investment was required to smarten up youth clubs and provide activities for young people.

McKee added that she hoped the green paper would make it clear that local authorities were responsible for young people’s services.

“The one thing the government has never been able to do is say who is responsible for young people…it’s only the local authorities with their arrangements for children and young people that can take this forward,” she said.

McKee concluded that she hoped that young people themselves would take the green paper’s policies forward to ensure they would work.