The comment was something like that. And the twenty years is almost up. It was not a remark made by some radical trade unionist afflicted by ideological myopia nor by an aloof academic relishing the arms-length conceptual critique, but by a...

"When youth work has been absorbed into a number of new initiatives trying to do all this targeted and focused work, particularly with young people considered to be at risk, somebody is going to come to me in twenty years' time and ask what 'youth work' was, and when I tell them, they will say 'we need it back'".
The comment was something like that. And the twenty years is almost up. It was not a remark made by some radical trade unionist afflicted by ideological myopia nor by an aloof academic relishing the arms-length conceptual critique, but by a...
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