The National Youth Agency: Comment - Youth work-universal? Targeted? Who cares?
By Fiona Blacke, chief executive of The National Youth Agency. Shecan be contacted at fionab@nya.org.uk 05 February 2009
The debate about whether youth work is a universal or targeted service is one I seem to get drawn into on a regular basis. Sometimes it gets confused with conversations about whether youth work can truly be youth work if a young person's participation in the process is anything other than voluntary. I believe these are two very distinct debates.
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