It's not just young people who are overloaded with bureaucracy. At the Federation for Detached Youth Work conference last month, there was general agreement when someone said: "I call myself a very well-paid admin worker - that's my new title for myself, because I just spend a lot of my time entering data into a computer."
When I started my first detached youth work job in 1995, we only asked young people for their first names. This has changed dramatically in recent years, with youth workers increasingly asked to gather and record intrusive details about young people, such as drug use and family members' criminal records. The need for a full name, date of birth, address, postcode and project attendance record for each young person is barely questioned.
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