Workers juggle the personal and the political
Howard Williamson
Monday, November 14, 2011
Times may change, but the challenge for something we call youth work remains the same. Most youth workers know that if it becomes too individualised (just focusing on supporting young people at a personal level) or too instrumentalised (expected to deliver a range of social objectives, such as crime prevention), it ceases to be youth work.
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