ABSTRACT
Youth policy during the New Labour Years created a new framework for youth and community work. As the new additions throughout this book have shown, the reorganisation of Children and Young People’s Services into Integrated Teams, and the targeting of resources towards those deemed most vulnerable led to a renewed focus on sexual health, pregnancy and parenthood, or obesity and healthy eating, and to an abandonment of the association with ‘community’ as a contested source of practice. This changed the focus of practice in many youth services and led to the loss of older approaches based on models of curriculum development and programme planning which were negotiated and group-led. Such shifts in resourcing and funding of youth work have been widely discussed and it is not the intention to repeat this analysis here.
