Over recent years there has been much hard work by The NYA and even more significantly by youth workers and those who manage them. Much of this has been prompted by the implementation of Resourcing Excellent Youth Services, the framework for youth services launched just over two years ago. The NYA continues to roll out programmes such as Young Roots, Hear by Right and the Young People's Development Programme, each designed to underpin local youth work and young people's involvement in its design and delivery.
And now the new Children Act. What a pity this major - and welcome - transformation is so grudging in its references to young people and to youth (as distinct from children's) services. An even greater pity is the fast rise in the number of young people being jailed - an increasing number for breaching antisocial behaviour orders, not breaking the law.
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