Local authorities have made only limited progress in involving voluntary, community and private groups in providing youth services, Ofsted inspectors say in a report today. They have also found that targeted support from councils and their partners is helping to meet the needs of vulnerable young people but a focus on providing services for ‘at risk’ young people risks undermining activities available to all young people.

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Council leaders have stressed that everyone could play a part in saving huge sums of money by not creating litter. The Local Government Association was responding to figures from Keep Britain Tidy that show English local authorities spend 858 million pounds a year cleaning litter from streets.

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Edited by Nick Mahony, Janet Newman and Clive Barnet.

This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It looks at how publics are brought into being and how to develop research agendas into their formation. It offers a rich set of methodological resources on which other researchers can draw and explores the boundaries between theory, research and politics.

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