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From The Frontline - Volunteers are worth all the frustration

10 December 2007, Pete Brierley, Youth Work Now

Many youth workers cling tightly to their position and keep their vision for projects close to their chest; yet in my experience, your vision is only as great as those...

Viewpoint - The youth worker's lot is a difficult one

10 December 2007, Bryan Merton, a youth work consultant and former inspector, Youth Work Now

Everyone claims to be doing youth work these days, whatever their designation: youth worker, personal adviser, learning mentor.

Editorial: Investment brings added responsibility

10 December 2007, Andy Hillier, Youth Work Now

When the youth work historians next update their texts, they'll probably have to devote a whole chapter to 2007.

The unpalatable truth of obesity

10 December 2007, Michael Bracey, Youth Work Now

Let me introduce you to the Quality Street Six. They're a small group of young people I work with each week. And like many youth groups, eating and drinking together...

Editorial: A lesson in communication for us all

12 November 2007, Andy Hillier, Youth Work Now

As a trainee journalist a decade ago, I was always taught to never accept quotes for articles by letter or fax. People write anodyne quotes, I was told, and you'll...

Viewpoint - Voluntary sector is still the junior partner

9 November 2007, Simon Antrobus, chief executive, Clubs for Young People, Youth Work Now

After many years in the wilderness, it's great youth work is now a key element of the government's 10-year youth strategy.

From the frontline - My liberating experience teaching refugees

9 November 2007, Mike Ridsdale, specialist drugs worker, Cheshire County Council, Youth Work Now

Burma has made headline news for all the wrong reasons recently.

From the Frontline - Reflecting on over 35 years of youthwork

2 October 2007, Mike Bunn, general secretary, Warwickshire Council for VoluntaryYouth Services, Youth Work Now

I've just compiled a newsletter for voluntary youth organisations in Warwickshire focusing on the Government's 10-year strategy for positive activities. I'm due to retire in December after 35 years of...

Youth work by the freezer cabinet

2 October 2007, Michael Bracey, Youth Work Now

I want to describe bumping into young people in Sainsbury's as an occupational hazard. But that makes it sound like a bad thing when it's not.

It's time for us to be treated as professionals

2 October 2007, Doug Nicholls, Youth Work Now

There are some perennial weeds in the youth work garden. Unless they are removed, the aspirations the government has declared for young people will wither away. The obstacles to growth...