Youth Work

'It depends' is a good answer to a hard question. It is a bad place to stop.

Managing a youth worker is not managing a job description. It is keeping the conditions standing long enough for the relationship to happen.

The curriculum is what we stand for. The programme is whether we mean it. They are not the same thing.

How STAR assessment templates make youth work apprentices misrepresent what they actually learned.

A cynical taxonomy of every five-letter acronym you have ever been forced to sit through at a conference.

The Activitist

Adjusted for inflation and population growth, the 1960 vision for a universal youth service would require £1.1 billion in capital alone.

Youth Work is being repositioned as a delivery arm of health, justice and education. The question is whether it still has a purpose of its own.