ABSTRACT
In a sense therefore, the desired outcomes of youth work have always been clearly stated and this is no less true in the 1990s than it ever was. Indeed, since its inception youth work has been continually refashioned to address contemporary concerns. More recently, attempts to attract changing sources of funding have usually been accompanied by promises to elicit from young people whatever behaviour was required by the particular funding body. As a result, youth work has been remodelled to fit the relevant criteria whether this concerned programmes for the unemployed, intermediate treatment, life skills training, health promotion, sex and drugs education, crime prevention, improving school attendance, combating alienation or social exclusion.
