To mark this milestone, this series of extracts or summaries reflects on aspects of youth policy and youth work practice over the past 25 years as featured in the 100th issue.
YOUNG PEOPLE, POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION: A YOUTH WORK PERSPECTIVE - Tony Taylor
To dwell upon this brings us to the question of ourselves, be we young people, youth workers or citizens; to our part in making history.
Conversations among workers, particularly in the last three years reveal that despondency seems widespread. There has been no collective, militant defence against the assault upon youth work's "soul" waged in the name of new managerialism, its imposition of targets and accredited prescribed outcomes. Individual workers resisting the imperative feel isolated and vulnerable. In this context we are forced to wonder: if youth workers lack the will to defend their supposed philosophy and practice, even their own conditions in the workplace, why do we think they will do anything else but accept the government's imposed prescription for youth participation?
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