However, as our special report examines, the National Youth Agency’s commission on youth work education, chaired by former children’s minister Tim Loughton, is exploring what role youth workers can play inside the school gates.
The commission’s work is a rare piece of youth policy activity, given the Department for Education’s current apathy towards youth affairs. It also comes as youth work faces acute pressure from local spending cuts, demonstrated by CYP Now’s survey of practitioners last month, which represented organisations working with 300,000 young people. Just as significant is what is happening – or rather, might not be happening – in schools.
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