Susie Roberts, chief executive of the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers, who will join in a panel debate about the future roles of youth organisations within children's trusts at the Young People Now Implementing Youth Matters conference next month (see box), says one of the big challenges for heads of youth services will be convincing those holding the purse strings at children's trusts of the importance of youth work to the five Every Child Matters outcomes.
Although principal youth officers will have to get used to the fact that youth work may no longer be delivered by something called a youth service, Roberts says they will also have to fight to protect the informal educational roots of youth work and the voluntary relationship with young people that it is based around.
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