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the changing shape of the youth work field
Major existing long term shifts:
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the expansion of church youth work and youth ministry (now more full-time
people in this sector than in the state youth service).
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an overall
 decline
in involvement in associational / community-based groups.
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increased participation by young people in education and the rise of
home-based leisure activity.
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important developments in work by tenants + other groups (in part linked
to regeneration + social housing activities)
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a growing professionalization (and bureacratization) of youth work
Different policy approaches adopted in Scotland, Wales, England and
Northern Ireland - but still a recognizable movement towards youth
development.
Growing divide between the character of state-funded and church-,
community- and movement-based work.
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