Youth Support Service

HC Deb 02 February 2000 vol 343 c609W

Mr. Stephen Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when he will be publishing details about the proposed youth support service. [108603]

Mr. Wicks

I am pleased to announce that we will publish tomorrow a policy document which sets out the Connexions strategy designed to raise educational achievement for all teenagers and how we envisage the new youth support service will operate. This service, outlined in the White Paper, "Learning to Succeed", will be called the "Connexions Service". Copies of the document will be available in the Vote Office and the Printed Paper Office at 9 a.m. on 3 February. Copies will also be placed in the Library.

We will be publishing a more detailed Connexions Service Prospectus and Specification in the spring.