He compares and contrasts early youth work with post-war youth services, arguing that the former epitomise mainstream youth work practice located within third sector voluntarism. Meanwhile, post-war services should be considered as more professionalised services supported by the central or local state. Neither, however, has been very successful in reaching the vast majority of young people, let alone achieving measurable outcomes with them. As a result, there has been a drift in the direction of what Coussee terms "youth social work", which is explicitly about working with the individual pathologies and problems of young people. A lot of modern youth work has been dragged into this orbit.
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