NO - ANDY DRIVER, youth work convenor, the Community and Youth Workers' Union: My concern is that The NYA isn't taking the lead in defending the youth service at a time when there is a need to do so. It wants to protect youth work rather than youth services and that's a technical error. You can't ensure high-quality youth work unless there is a service that protects and promotes it. It can't exist in a vacuum.
YES - JON NIBLO, chairman, Federation for Detached Youth Work: The NYA is still recognised as the central contact point for the youth work sector and no-one else has as much credibility in that role. We are extremely grateful to it because when we were homeless it supported us and gave us an administrative base. So from our point of view and the wider sector's I think it is doing a very good job.
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