Its approach is rightly to provide example after example of how youth work programmes across the country are benefiting young people in line with the Every Child Matters outcomes. It shows how youth work helps promote sexual health, counters drug and alcohol misuse, supports learning and keeps young people safe. Youth work's benefits might be more difficult to capture and isolate compared to other interventions with the young, but this document lays bare an abundance of concrete results.
Youth work is best delivered where practitioners are allowed to get on with their job free from the restrictions of bureaucratic micro-management and to help young people on their terms. There is always plenty of theorising about what youth work actually is.
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