Interview: A matter of faith - Mike Seaton, national secretary, Methodist Association of Youth Clubs
By Cathy Wallace
Children & Young People Now
6 February 2008
The political pendulum could be seen to be swinging away from the faith-based youth work sector, if the recent refusal by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to fund several faith-based projects is anything to go by (CYP Now, 30 January-5 February).
"I think it's a reaction to some of the tensions at the moment around radical extremism and fundamentalism," says Mike Seaton, national secretary of the Methodist Association of Youth Clubs (MAYC). The association has just been refused money from the government's children, young people and families grant. "There's a fear the government won't be seen to...