My colleagues have just returned from a training event where their contribution was devalued because it was discovered that they do not work exclusively with young people from the extreme end of the needs spectrum.
Sadly, this is a view we are hearing more and more. Unless you're working with young people from single-parent families, or who have antisocial behaviour orders, drug problems and the like, then you're not considered to be doing youth work.
Recently I heard this from someone who is running an excellent youth club where the work with young people is planned, delivered and reviewed, and where young people are enabled to make informed life choices. The youth club has no idea what indices of deprivation are applicable to individual young people but it does know the individual needs of the young people.
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