ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some particular aspects of the part played by youth service and adult education in making leisure provision for the present and providing education for future leisure. The Albemarle Committee saw the service as helping ‘to counteract the increasing educational and professional stratification of society’. So wide is the encompassment of the service that there are few educational or social matters to which some individual youth workers or units have not at some stage or other turned their attention and sometimes with great success. More sophisticated educational aims can really only come into the picture when this has been achieved, and the staff turnover alone, to give but one of many factors, makes this a comparatively rare situation. The commonly expressed educational objectives are straightforward. The particular potential of the adult education service is that the staff of the service can negotiate on grounds of equality with the people in the community the service is there to serve.
