Can a youth club revival help the ‘anxious generation’? – podcast

What is the UK government planning for young people? With Emma Warren“I was sat on the tube on the Northern line going south and I noticed a group get on – a man and three young people. There was something happening that I couldn’t quite recognise. They’re not from school. They don’t look like a family group.”Emma Warren, a journalist and author of Up the Youth Club: Illuminating a Hidden History, explains to Helen Pidd how she realised that the man she was observing was a youth worker. “Bringing people in, dropping them out. I was watching someone extremely skilful. He was turning the end of the tube carriage into a youth club, and he was conducting a conversation.” Continue reading...