Will they be celebrated for a commitment to social inclusion and youth participation? Or condemned for the criminalisation of children and the widespread use of Asbos?
We must always be very careful about leaping to watertight conclusions and sweeping generalisations, for there are always differences between the ways in which policy is espoused, then enacted and finally experienced. The "most advanced set of youth training proposals ever laid before Parliament", as the then employment secretary Norman Tebbit described the new Youth Training Scheme in 1982, was the same rip-off cheap labour programme later described by young people. The critical point is that for many reasons, both interpretations may contain elements of truth.
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