"Young people have things to teach us: they see things simply. Young people have no distinction between the different agencies that run our clubs. They are only interested in: is it open or closed, is it good or bad?"
So said Jeremy Glover, chief executive of Bolton Lads and Girls Club, at Young People Now's Sharing Best Practice: Implementing The Youth Matters Green Paper conference last week. The subject of relationships was close to the heart of all speakers and delegates: not only the relationship between young people and youth workers, which made a welcome appearance as the third strapline of the Youth Matters: Next Steps document, but also the challenges posed to organisations in working together to implement the youth green paper.
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