Andi ChorleyAs an asocial book-reading boy, I did not care less about youth clubs back in the 70s & 80s BUT I now realise their loss since was an avoidable tragedy for many other kids more social than I. I also think this passage in John Harris's article indicates a difference between the Tories of 1958 and now:
"In 1958, the Tory government led by Harold Macmillan commissioned a watershed report about youth services, put together by an aristocratic social reformer called Lady Diana Albemarle. ...she found youth services “in a state of acute depression”, with the people who provided them “neglected and held in small regard, both in educational circles and by public opinion generally”. Youth provision, it said, was “dying on its feet”. But as Warren describes, Conservative politicians then made huge changes: 3,000 new buildings, 160 new sports projects, and newly expanded and professionalised youth services."
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