The National Youth Agency's response to the Russell Commission took the line that volunteering is meaningless unless participants are able to describe what the experience meant to them and can recognise what has changed. One of my colleagues argues that in order to retain the essence of youth work, a prerequisite for any recorded outcome must be an appropriate conversation between a young person and worker in which the young person can recognise the learning that has taken place and agrees it is meaningful to them.
Before this conversation, a worker may well make a record of "what is happening for a young person", but this cannot become a recorded outcome until the young person recognises the learning for him or herself.
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