Two particular papers caught my eye - and were saved from the bonfire.
One was the report of a conference in 1971, chaired by the general secretary of the Boys' Brigade and based in part on a paper by a principal youth officer. This conference proposed the reshaping of the then Youth Service Information Centre into what became the National Youth Bureau and eventually The National Youth Agency. Its central mission would be the promotion of, and training for, social education practice regardless of setting.
Much of what the conference organisers sought has been achieved over the past 30 years but the sense of joint enterprise across the sectors seems to have diminished.
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