This has been another really tough year for youth work across the UK. As youth work declines here, it is on an upward curve elsewhere in Europe - notably in countries such as Lithuania, Slovakia, Malta and Portugal. Throughout the Commonwealth, there is some acknowledgement of the useful place of youth work in youth empowerment and nation building. Within the United Nations, there has been effective advocacy of the role of non-formal and experiential learning in youth development and the encouragement of volunteering. So it is rather strange that youth work in the UK, where it has existed and evolved for approaching 200 years, should be so precariously poised.
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