Having started my youth work career in the halcyon days of the 80s, I certainly have never known anything like the destruction of youth services that is going on now. Youth services have always been an easy target, but it would have been a brave local authority that got rid of the service altogether. I have always believed that the youth service should be firmly rooted in education, contributing as it does, to the overall education and personal development of young people. And that is one of the reasons I was so delighted that not only did the Liberal Democrats agree to making a statutory youth service part of our "Free to be Young" policy, but that it also featured in our manifesto.
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