Those of us engaged in youth work need to speak in defence of good quality work. Without youth work, young people will lose out and pressures on children's services budgets will increase.
Youth work will need to make itself heard even more in the coming months when budgets are set and cuts are being discussed.
David Wright, chief executive, Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services
Support for teacher training
Sir Jim Rose's groundbreaking report, Identifying Children and Young People with Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties, made many excellent recommendations on how to support pupils struggling to learn.
The government embraced these recommendations and provided £10m to train 4,000 teachers to become dyslexia and special learning difficulties specialists.
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