Are youth services as we know them under threat? Chester Morrison, principal education officer at Liverpool City Council, certainly thinks so.
Speaking at Young People Now's Joining Up conference in west London just over two weeks ago, Morrison said the arrival of children's trusts and the adoption of youth work methods by other agencies could result in the demise of local authority youth services in their traditional form (YPN, 16-22 June, p2).
Indeed, youth workers seem to be popping up in all kinds of places these days. Youth workers and the methods they use can now be found in organisations as diverse as prisons, Connexions, housing trusts and museums, to name just a few.
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