Cash back into Adur and Worthing youth services

A DECISION to cut £2 million of funding from youth services in Worthing and Adur has been reversed.

In February, West Sussex County Council said it was reviewing its service to cut costs.

Now, however, 1 million is to be put into youth services.

"We need to reform our youth service to make it more responsive to young people's needs, more plural in the provision it provides and with greater efficiency for the local tax-payer," said leader of the council Henry Smith.

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County Liberal Democrats had criticised the proposed cuts in February.

Group leader Morwen Millson said: "I am delighted the Conservatives have finally listened to us and recognised this was a cut too far."

Mr Smith, however, said the Liberal Democrats group was trying to take credit for a county council decision.

"The proposed Liberal amendment at the February budget meeting was to use funding set aside to pay the salaries of frontline council staff and the Conservatives thought that imprudent and wrong," he said.

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