"There are proposals to change the use of the Roundwood Youth Centre that will build on the current arrangements. If agreed, the site would be used during school term time for an Alternative Provision school setting, with evening and weekend youth activities being provided by the voluntary sector. This will help meet the need in the borough for local places and preventing permanent school exclusions. Currently a number of young people temporarily excluded from their secondary school setting attend alternative provision out of borough and this will be one solution to this issue.
We are working with the voluntary sector through the Young Brent Foundation to make sure that services to young people continue from the Roundwood site and also that the broader Youth Offer across the borough is comprehensive, updated and secures charitable funding."
In other words, the Borough's only remaining youth centre will be turned over to the education service. This would conflict with the Labour Party's national stance. I am also not sure whether this would be compatible with the conditions of the grant that built the new Roundwood Centre, which was difficult to obtain. Those stated that if it changed its purpose, the grant would be paid back. I am not sure if this suggested change would indeed be such a change in purpose.
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