I'd like to make some observations in support of Andy Upson's recent column on targeted youth work (Youth Work Now, March 2008).
Imagine the following scenario. The Good Haulage Company operates a fleet of wagons throughout the UK. It employs 100 maintenance mechanics and six breakdown mechanics. Under a new initiative, the company decides to stop funding the maintenance programme for its vehicles (e.g. mainstream youth work) and instead puts all its resources into its breakdown programme (e.g. targeted youth work).
After a year of this initiative the company discovers it is having more and more breakdowns. Is this a good result? Perhaps the next stage will be a celebration of those who fix the breakdowns while those struggling to maintain their own vehicles and keep them "on the road" go largely unnoticed.
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