Conclusion

Abstract

Abstract There is a shared arts-based informal, out-of-school practice with young people in the three cities of London, Toronto, and Vancouver that amounts to an administrative “sector” in the modern welfare state—a demarcated “field of practice.” This chapter addresses three key challenges that situate the meaning of the sector: its specificity and context, the relationship between practices and institutions, and the status and visibility of YouthSites. The chapter discusses how the contradictions of neoliberalism have shaped the development of the sector, configuring a series of tensions between opportunity and constraint, enterprise and audit, and radical care and youth welfare provision. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the future of YouthSites in policy and practice.