No, it is not! Rather, it is a time to praise those who try to improve the lives of young people. Those people who do so night after night in all the great variety of settings that youth work offers - youth clubs, Girlguiding, arts projects, and on the streets where young people gather - a vast array of colleagues whose work is too often undervalued and is certainly underfunded. Let us hope that the new 10-year strategy begins to alter that.
Anyone who does a national job stands on the shoulders of others: youth workers, their managers and trainers, academic writers. In my own case, I have been helped down the years by various friends, colleagues and mentors - Alan Gibson, Alec Oxford, Don Grisbrook, Mary Marken, Howard Williamson, Bryan Merton and Bernard Davies, to name but a few.
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