Youth work is there to take them not just into their local and hopefully adequately funded youth club environment, but also to specially designed residential centres.
Every year, tens of thousands of young people from across the UK visit such centres and benefit from a wide range of activities and learning programmes. Many come from disadvantaged backgrounds and go to struggling inner-city schools. Such centres offer them an environment unlike anything most will have encountered before. This completely new experience offers an exciting new canvas on which they can develop their broader skills, boost their confidence and reassess their relationships: with themselves, each other and their teachers.
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