So, what is "youth work"? And is it any good? Is it possible to lift the miasma of the much-vaunted 'youth work approach' to reveal the purposes, values, tasks, methods and skills that make up this form of professional intervention? I have tried to do so in a slim volume published by The National Youth Agency called Good Youth Work. I had wanted to entitle the book Excellent Youth Work, but changed my mind for two reasons. First, I became tired of...