These councils represent a community approach to juvenile delinquency which seems appropriate to both the current problems of young people in trouble and to fostering the possible involvement of the voluntary sector. Intermediate treatment has three main areas of work: direct work with young people who are in trouble or at risk, negotiations to improve community features which contribute to juvenile delinquency, and monitoring of the juvenile justice system to ensure that it is working in the best interests of young people. Three local voluntary programs for intermediate treatment have been established using an interagency model in which the program operates in the voluntary sector and which has representatives of all the major statutory agencies concerned with juvenile delinquency on its management committee. Voluntary programs like these have advantages with respect to the resources they can attract, the wide variety of services they can offer, and their ability to effect the coordination of the efforts of the statutory agencies. To promote the development of more such programs, funding is needed for personnel to undertake the initial development work. Efforts should be made to develop public knowledge about intermediate treatment and meetings between voluntary and statutory organizations to plan programs for the provision of intermediate treatment. Appendixes give background information; 19 references are supplied.