Coming nine years after the first two volumes of A History of the Youth Service in England set a benchmark for historical analysis of the development of youth work, this chapter picks the story up from the election of the first Blair government and sweeps forward to the arrival of Gordon Brown and his announcement of Aiming High, the Government's 10-year strategy for young people.
The account covers a period when, says Davies, "youth" has often been demonised and in which those demons have come to dictate policy. Over the same period, he charts the way the youth service has increasingly been subsumed into wider integrated services.
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