The youth service in England and Wales : report of the Committee appointed by the Minister of Education in Nov., 1958.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Education
Date:
1960
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Credit: The youth service in England and Wales : report of the Committee appointed by the Minister of Education in Nov., 1958. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8. As we seek to show later, the Youth Service is deeply relevant to the needs and complexities of a modern society enjoying a rising standard of living. But its real achievements are bound to be sometimes difficult to measure statistically, and may only be seen clearly over a long period. This is yet another reason for losing no time in making a proper start. 9. In the course of our work, we have considered written evidence from 69 bodies and have heard oral evidence from 20 of these (Appendix 1). In addition, a large number of suggestions, sometimes in the form of memo- randa, have been received. We have interviewed several individual people with a free-lance interest in or special knowledge of youth work, and we have consulted many others informally. We have received statistical informa- tion from Government departments and, in reply to a questionnaire of our own, from all 146 local education authorities in England and Wales. The Central Advisory Council for Education (England) has made available to us the results of a survey carried out in 1957*; a section of this survey dealt with the leisure-time interests of young people after leaving schoo! and was based on questions put to a sample of those who had attended maintained schools. We have kept in touch with the Council and with two other bodies which were examining social problems affecting young people— the Ministry of Health’s Working Party on Social Workers in the Local Authority Health and Welfare Services, and the Industrial Training Council which was set up after the publication of the Carr Committee’s Report} in 1958. We have read reports on the Youth Service written by H.M. Inspectors of Schools, and have received several publications giving information about youth work abroad, particularly in Europe. We are grateful to all those who have helped us in these ways. Individual members of the Committee have visited youth groups at work in various parts of the country ; several members were able, during visits abroad for other purposes, to learn something about youth work in the United States of America and four other countries. 10. We have met on 30 days, of which two were in Cardiff and three constituted a residential week-end conference. * The survey was carried out by the Central Office of Information for the Central Advisory Council. See “15 to 18 ”, A Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education (England). +“ Training for Skill—Recruitment and Training of Young Workers in Industry ” (Report of a Sub-Committee of the National Joint Advisory Council, 1958). 3
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