YES - Bob Allen, national president, Community and Youth Workers' Union
Youth and community workers are increasingly seen as crucial to delivering the lifelong learning social inclusion agenda.
The new JNC agreement, secured in large part by the CYWU's industrial action, is a major advance in workers' pay. There is now the possibility of developing a more coherent framework of training and qualifications.
Transforming Youth Work and the forthcoming youth green paper can be the basis for better collaborative provision with youth workers and a better-funded youth service playing a central role.
The proposed merger is all about winning a better deal for young people and for those thousands of dedicated professional workers not yet on JNC.
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