Opinion

How football assists young people to chase their goals

3 mins read Youth Work

We live in hard times, with draconian cuts to public services, much greater competition for charitable grants and the inevitable, if unfortunate, in-fighting between like-minded organisations trying to stay afloat (even if there are initiatives seeking greater collaboration in the youth sector - see CYP Now, 10-23 November). In such circumstances, it requires considerable courage or stupidity to try to start from scratch, as everyone else is repositioning, reconfiguring or going under. These "ocean" analogies are apposite: for the past 15 years, the UK has been awash with organisations of many different sizes proclaiming their capacity and effectiveness in combating the social exclusion of young people, in particular supporting the (re)inclusion of young people outside of education, training and employment, and dealing with all the associated challenges these young people present.

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