When the government published its Positive for Youth policy statement a couple of weeks ago a tweet from @sammymoggas really summed it up nicely for me – "seems the Positive for Youth strategy came with a free pair of rose tinted spectacles".
There is little to disagree with in the paper, it truly is "positive for youth", committed to involving young people in the decisions that affect their lives, supporting their families, declaring "we will move away from measuring negative outcomes", centred on young people and clearly aspirational. It has, however, one fatal flaw – it appears to be operating in a parallel universe! It comes with no new funds attached, no new powers to support its implementation and no clear sense of how the strategy can be delivered.
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