Lochgelly Youth Forum

That the Parliament congratulates the members of Lochgelly Youth Forum on their campaign to protect and enhance the provision of youth work in Lochgelly and across Fife; notes the Forum's concerns that the money available for youth work has been cut year-on-year across Scotland as local authority budgets are cut; acknowledges the role that the Forum plays in the local community of Lochgelly through involvement with the gala, the Café Inc, as well as campaigns, such as the action on Mossmorran, and notes its call for a return of youth work services funding to pre-austerity levels, the strengthening of the statutory basis of youth work services and actively promoting the crucial preventative spend that it considers investing in youth work achieves.