Policy documents such as our long-awaited youth green paper are often equally impenetrable, with the real direction obscure, enveloped as it usually is in all the warm words of partnership, joined-up thinking and other such rhetoric.
In the early 1990s, for four years, The National Youth Agency (NYA) held an annual Albemarle Lecture in London to bring together some of the movers and shakers in the youth service and to act as a showcase for youth work and wider work with young people. Ted Heath, former Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, spoke one year. Andreas Whittam Smith, who had chaired the National Inquiry into Youth Homelessness, was the speaker another year, as was Patricia Hewitt, now a minister but then just the humble MP for a constituency in Leicester, home of The NYA. The first speaker was none other than Lady Albemarle herself, at the sprightly age of 84.
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