Who's Leon Feinstein then? He is part of the team that wrote a report for a Department for Education and Skills-funded research organisation set up to "investigate the benefits that learning brings to the individual and to society". The report, authored by Feinstein and two colleagues, was published alongside the Youth Matters green paper last week.
So why was the report commissioned? It is part of the education department's attempts to develop some hard evidence that could inform government thinking about the provision of services for young people.
How did they set about doing this? The researchers took some analysis of a group of young people who were born in 1970 and caught up with them in 1986 when they were 16. It looked at whether these teenagers got involved in youth activities, analysing their involvement in sport and community centres, youth clubs, uniformed youth clubs, church-based activities, volunteering and so on.
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