Constable refuses to pay up for youth project

Tuesday 1st April 2008, 12:00AM BST.

THE Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft, has called off a £60,000 youth project, prompting resignations from the parish’s Youth Committee.

Acting committee chairman Deputy Ben Fox, the Assistant Education Minister, had won the committee’s backing to spend £60,000 of their annual ฃ80,000 budget to support States youth worker salaries.

But Mr Crowcroft – whose support for youth programmes in town was part of his successful re-election campaign in January – pulled the plug on the deal, saying that ratepayers’ money should not be used to prop up services that should be paid for by the States.

And he says the Deputy should not be using parish funds to pay for services that his own department should be providing.

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