Have I mentioned that I’m on the cross-party Member Task Group working with the ‘Youth Project Team’ at the development of Youth Services in Surrey? Possibly not, because its meetings are not held in public, and so it would be difficult to sift out what is still confidential and what can be published.

But coming out of that, the Youth Project Team has now sent a key report to the Executive (Surrey’s ‘Cabinet’) for consideration next Tuesday, 21st October.

You can find it on SCC website here.

The main officer report with the recommendations is here

There’s a lot that’s not to disagree with in there - IMHP there’s a door opening a crack towards making better use of Youth Centres and the resources we have in Surrey,  even though we’re not going to get fhe County Council itself providing everything parents and youngsters would like to see on the ground.

I’m posting this now because it is the first major public statement in what I suspect could  become a fierce debate, early next year we come to the last budget of this Council