Local authorities that hadn't already withdrawn support for the sport quickly found themselves having to re-evaluate their stance. Increasingly, the only organisations left running boxing schemes for young people were the voluntary sector youth projects that had a long-established history with the sport and that were stubborn enough to ride out the media storm.
Almost two decades on and it seems boxing is steadily dragging itself off the canvas in mainstream youth work circles. As this month's cover feature shows (see p14), Westminster Council has taken the bold step of providing youth work support to a local boxing project so that young people can receive both tutorship in the sport and learn other values along the way.
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