In the past week, I have read or heard half a dozen claims by young youth workers that it is the fact that they are in their early twenties that enables them to be effective as youth work practitioners. They talk of their affinity with the young people (usually disadvantaged young people) with whom they work on the grounds of their shared understanding of, and commitment to, music, fashion and other aspects of "taste". By implication, the rest of us are old farts who are out of touch with today's young people and therefore less able to provide requisite support, activity and learning.
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