Yet again, the crude distinction was made between structured and unstructured youth work, illustrated by Hodge's observation that a bad youth club is one where there is an empty room, with a battered old ping-pong table in the corner - and no kids. Ironically, of course, this observation supports the case for the need to build connections and relationships with young people. This will often have to take place in the "bleak and neglected" surroundings so disparaged by Hodge; that is not the youth worker's fault, but the failure of capital investment in the infrastructure for some kinds of youth work.
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