The commissioner might have added that there is a collective amnesia within the civil service about documents produced only a few years ago.
I have often reminded readers of the content of the Social Exclusion Unit's Policy Action Team 12 report on young people but it was scandalous that during a Labour Party conference discussion convened by The Foyer Federation, very few of those involved recalled that document. In Wales, there has been a mischievous reinterpretation of the Extending Entitlement agenda.
Both documents were produced just five years ago and neither has been matched by any policy analysis. Bernard Davies has pointed to the repetition in the English youth green paper of many points made in the documentation that forged the Connexions strategy and service.
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