This applies to all our work with young people, be it in children's homes, youth projects or training programmes.
In forming initiatives, we get carried away with seductive planning models around assessment, referral, information and tracking. This is, of course, necessary if we are to provide the ground for the evaluation of the work.
But however good, or bad, the structures are, so much still hinges on the personal and cultural perspectives that individuals and groups hold towards the programme aimed at them. We are all familiar with the dismissive attitude of some young people towards, for example, youth training programmes: they are a "waste of time"; "cheap labour" that doesn't get you anywhere.
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