YOUTH WORK - NICK WILKIE, chief executive, London Youth
The big society has a rough ride from the very people who might be expected to embrace the idea. Many have remarked unflatteringly that the big society heralds a return to Victorian philanthropy - the suggestion being that such talk is merely convenient cover for cutting the duties of a civilized state.
Yet at the turn of the 20th century, you couldn't move for original thinking about young people. What's more, the coalition's stated vision of small groups of engaged citizens taking real responsibility for the raising of our young accurately describes the work youth workers are already doing every day and night. We are the big society.
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