Youth services: Cheshire workers fight Tory council scheme to outsource youth services

this from "Young People Now"
Youth workers in Cheshire are at loggerheads with the council over plans to outsource the county's youth service.
Cheshire County Council's Conservative executive decided last week to recommend the transfer of its youth service to a separate company, merging it with Connexions in the area. The company would be owned by Cheshire County and Warrington Borough councils and run by a board of council and Connexions representatives.

If the council backs the recommendation next Thursday, it will mean the creation of an integrated service by April next year, with a budget of about £12m and employing 350 staff.  more here