However, youth work is youth work. Youth work is primarily educational (Rosseter, 1987) yet often it is not informal education, this is but one element of a complex and many faceted role. Whether statutory and funded by LEA, or voluntary sector receiving funding from grants and service level agreements, measurement of process and outputs are often required, if continued existence is to be achieved. Whilst this is unavoidable to some degree, it is possible to attempt to minimise the harmful effects the curriculum may impose. Certainly a curriculum can assist the inexperienced part-time, sessional or voluntary youth worker in planning for creating worthwhile opportunities for young people. These opportunities should be embraced and used as occasions where informal education can take place. Care must be taken though, that measurement does not lead this process, for when youth workers become entirely governed by quantifying young people as consumers and by measuring outputs, meaningful education will cease to take place.