Meetings that may be about young people, that may touch on their needs, but only now and again, and always superficially. Meetings that have nothing much to do with young people at all.
I remember attending a youth participation event with some young people shortly after Labour's 1997 election victory.
One of the new female MPs dubbed "Blair's Babes" in the tabloids was there talking to young people. Things felt much more connected, as if the Government was now accessible as never before.
Time has passed and we have all been swimming with the tide of joined-up working. The notion that "young people are people too" has filtered through to every agency under the sun. And all these agencies look to local youth workers to link young people in to their programmes.
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