YES - Claire Fox, director, The Institute of Ideas
The main themes of the change agenda concentrate on presenting young people as vulnerable victims. This might seem a more appealing image than David Blunkett's demonisation of teenagers as yobs, but it's a trap for youth workers.
Despite the soft language of safety, Change for Children, the document the Government launched this week to tie together its various youth policies, is a more menacing form of social containment than antisocial behaviour orders. Promoting the young as victims suggests they are too vulnerable to look after themselves and they need to be protected.
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