The Social Services : The immediate problem and the way forward
1944 1944 1940s 34 pages institution of youth centres designed for everyone, with a welcome co-operation between voluntary and official bodies, though certain organisations are sometimes excluded on political grounds. A great deal more could be done to develop social and educational centres for all...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : The Socialist Medical Assocation
[1944?]
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| Summary: | 1944
1944
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institution of youth centres designed for everyone, with a welcome co-operation between voluntary and official bodies, though certain organisations are sometimes excluded on political grounds. A great deal more could be done to develop social and educational centres for all young people, in which provision should be made for cultural activities both physical and mental, and a great advance should be possible when it is no longer necessary to give adolescents a preliminary training for military service. A crying need is for more playing fields, to enable every football and cricket enthusiast to be a player as well as a spectator. Sport which is considered an essential part of a "public school" education, should be available to the ordinary boy and girl. An advance has been marked by the proposals in the recent Education Act for the establishment of Young Peoples' Colleges. The success of youth centres will depend to a great extent on the demand which is made for them by the young themselves, and organisations such as Trade Unions can do a great deal to propagate the idea in the minds of young workers that such things are both necessary and possible. The full participation of the young people in the running of their own centres is also essential to their success. This can probably best be developed by encouraging the members of existing youth clubs, who already have some idea of democratic organisation, to co-operate 9
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