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, Central Government and Youth Work
Tom Wylie
It is sometimes said that policy about children's welfare in this country only follows a crisis or moral panic.
Something similar affects youth work. The variable interest of policy-makers may, however, say more about their changing pre-occupations than about the needs of young people or youth work practice.
Over the course of 25 years, the approach to policy making has changed. The Thompson Report (1982) was in the previously classical mode: a review committee of the great and the good, chaired by a safe pair of hands with a secretariat supplied by HM Inspectorate. Evidence was sought from the field and from committee visits, then carefully weighed before presentation to Ministers.
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