Social workers have one and so do teachers. Even journalists have a voluntary one. So why can't youth workers have a code of ethics? The Community and Youth Workers' Union (CYWU) believes they should, and used its conference on People, Funding and Policy last week to launch its latest drive to get the need for a code recognised.
The union argues that youth work needs to be given professional status if the reforms of services expected in the youth green paper are to work.
Doug Nicholls, the union's general secretary, says without this change the platform for reform is "creaking and unsafe".
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