The move to the Cabinet Office for youth policy, under minister for civil society Nick Hurd, may not be such a bad thing for youth work and related matters to do with young people. Despite the recurrent core assertion that youth work is essentially an educational practice, it is customary in many countries to keep responsibility for it out of ministries of education, where it is always at risk of being swallowed up or overlooked as the agendas of formal education and schooling predominate. That is what has happened recently in England as ministers in the Department for Education focused almost exclusively on school reform and consigned youth work and other youth policy to the sidelines.
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