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YOUTH SERVICE: The End of Youth Work?

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The Transforming Youth Work Government initiative has been welcomed in most quarters. But Mark Smith believes it could spell the end of youth work as we know it

It must have seemed as if Christmas had come early for English youth services when the latest instalment of Transforming Youth Work: Resourcing Excellent Youth Services appeared on 18 December, promising resources, a statutory basis, and recognition of youth work values and methods.

But as the feel-good effect wore off, a rather different mood emerged among some youth workers. They had grasped the scale of the changes proposed.

As one worker who responded on the informal education web site bulletin board (www.infed.org) said: "The Government has given us what we wanted, but also completely taken away what we are and do."

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