He discusses the moment in 1998 when the first audit of England's youth service showed incoming youth minister George Mudie just how parlous its state had become. Wylie notes that Mudie was "personally sympathetic to youth work and wanted to improve matters". Regrettably, he was "thwarted" by a number of factors, including a special adviser to the then Department for Education and Skills Tom Bentley, who "was interested in reconstructing the support services for young people along the lines he had set out in his book Destinations Unknown".
Such obstacles and interventions to reflective policy development are routinely hidden from history. Those who write the histories do not know about them and those who know about them do not write.
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