The voluntary engagement of young people with youth workers is an expression of a unique contract that ensures the state provides professionals to enhance young people's voice, opportunities and education.
This is done outside of school and work, and on terms young people define. It is in leisure time, but not a leisure activity. It educates for social cohesion and democracy. It is the epitome of commitment to Big Society.
Relationship building, often undertaken through conversation and apparently unstructured events, is a proven way of advancing social engagement.
Inequality has broken many of our communities and the victims of the lack of hope have been young people. Social bonds have been evaporated in the culture of individualism encouraged by political and economic trends. A dysfunctional, greed-based economy leads to a dysfunctional society.
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