The finding from CYP Now's state of youth work survey that 96 per cent of respondents think the public don't understand what youth workers do is disappointing yet unsurprising.
For too long now there has been a general disconnect between youth work, parents and society in general. The 45 per cent of survey respondents who felt the public were neither favourable nor unfavourable in their view of youth workers highlights the key issue: most people, whether because they haven't had a personal experience of youth services or never been moved to enquire about them, are simply unclear about what youth workers do, the roles they play in young people's lives and how they link into other services.
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