The ghosts of youth work’s past
“I think it is time for us to start being honest with ourselves and begin to deliver youth work practices in a climate that demands innovation and progression, for a generation who demand the need for transformative youth work now more than ever.” Blake C-W urges the youth work sector to look to the future.
Attention youth workers! Radical change is coming – look busy
“You have the opportunity here to pioneer an evolution of understanding in the role youth work can play, and for the first time in generations, to do it on your own terms. Will you take it?” Gethyn Williams urges youth work to explore new markets - even if it might seem like ‘letting government off the hook’.
It’s time for youth workers to make some NOISE!
Something that youth work has never been very good at is shouting, loud and proud, about its achievements. Schools do it endlessly, other voluntary sector organisations do it and businesses certainly do it, but in many youth provisions there seems to be a kind of cultural humbleness attached to what they do. I suspect there may […]