6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
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c<strong>on</strong>sultants <strong>in</strong> another, or by neighbourhoods and families <strong>in</strong> yet another country or, <strong>in</strong>deed,<br />
not at all <strong>in</strong> many places.<br />
Today, the difficulty with<strong>in</strong> state systems to adequately ensure global access to educati<strong>on</strong><br />
and the labour market, means that youth work <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly deals with unemployment,<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>al failure, marg<strong>in</strong>alisati<strong>on</strong> and social exclusi<strong>on</strong>. Increas<strong>in</strong>gly, youth work overlaps<br />
with the area of social services previously undertaken by the welfare state. It, therefore,<br />
<strong>in</strong>cludes work <strong>on</strong> aspects such as educati<strong>on</strong>, employment, assistance and guidance,<br />
hous<strong>in</strong>g, mobility, crim<strong>in</strong>al justice and health, as well as the more traditi<strong>on</strong>al areas of<br />
participati<strong>on</strong>, youth politics, cultural activities, career guidance, leisure and sports. <strong>Youth</strong><br />
work often seeks to reach out to particular groups of young people such as disadvantaged<br />
youth <strong>in</strong> socially deprived neighbourhoods, or immigrant youth <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g refugees and<br />
asylum seekers. <strong>Youth</strong> work may at times be organised around a particular religious<br />
traditi<strong>on</strong>”.<br />
This def<strong>in</strong>iti<strong>on</strong> of youth work, which forms the basis of the study, has ultimately proved to be<br />
the most comprehensive. The results of the <strong>in</strong>vestigati<strong>on</strong> have not given rise to any need for<br />
expand<strong>in</strong>g or reformulat<strong>in</strong>g it <strong>in</strong> more precise terms.<br />
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