They sometimes say that luck (good or bad) comes in threes. Youth work has had a bellyful of the latter. After the joyous days, supposedly, of the Transforming Youth Work and Youth Matters policy documents under a now long forgotten previous administration, it has faced calamitous recent years on account of the global economic crisis, coalition cuts and ideological indifference. And let us not forget that had Labour succeeded in May, there was little about youth work in its pronouncements and nothing in its manifesto - despite a firm commitment made by its leader a year before of the intention to put youth work on a statutory basis. But, from the Conservatives and Labour, we have been there before: pre-election promises, post-election myopia.
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