I was reminded of the comment last week at the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster. In her keynote speech to the Young People Now Foundation National Youth Conference (see p18), the minister wasn't exactly unequivocal in her support of youth workers. She said youth work would be at the centre of the green paper, but her speech was long on references to children's services, and short on comfort for youth services.
One youth worker asked what his service's place was in the post-green paper landscape, to be told this was symptomatic of a flawed attitude.
Youth workers must look at the whole, rather than adopting a "silo" approach, she said. They must think children and young people, not services.
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