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AbstractDespite its successful expansion over the past two decades, Kenya's Youth Polytechnic Programme1 is widely regarded as having failed to achieve its original objectives. The programme was supposed to provide a non‐formal training to unemployed school‐leavers in skills directly related to local income‐generating opportunities. Critics, especially amongst the influential Aid Community, have complained of excessive formalization and an orientation in the polytechnics to certification and paid employment. A recent national tracer study seems to confirm the programme's marginal impact. This paper reassesses the development of the programme, using a framework derived from Sabatier's work on implementation. Taking account of the inadequate premises upon which the programme was launched, the deficiencies in legal structure, the resource overload, and the socio‐economic and cultural environment, the programme's 'failures' can be seen as a successful adaption to prevailing pressures and constraints. The real failure has been in the lack of learning from practice, which has prevented a realistic assessment of the programme's impact and potential. Wedded to the programme's initial ideals, the impact of policy prescriptions upon polytechnic practice has been limited, and in some respects even counter‐productive.

Rückblickende Bewertung dieses ländlichen, low-cost, nicht-formalen Bildungsprogrammes (bis 1985 Village Polytechnic Programme genannt), unter Verwendung eines an P.A. Sabatier (1986) orientierten und modifizierten Beurteilungsrahmens. Abweichend von, sich in den 80er Jahren häufenden, sehr negativen Urteilen, die die Realität und notwendigen Durchführungsänderungen an idealistischen Ausgangsvorstellungen messen, wird die Gesamtbilanz viel günstiger beurteilt, da u.a. hinderliche Faktoren und das tatsächlich Machbare berücksichtigte werden. Die Untersuchung ist zudem eine generelle Auseinandersetzung mit der Rolle idealistischer Wunschvorstellungen bei der Formulierung politischer Ziele, mit "intellektuellen Modetrends", mit den Kriterien für Bewertungen von Resultaten praktischer Politik und mit der Rolle verschiedener Polit-Akteure. (APAF-Glz)

Cohabitation law reform may be informed by different purposes. Three are considered in this paper: protection of parties at risk when relationships break down, parity of treatment between different forms of partnership, and the promotion of particular family forms. These are considered in relation to the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 in the context of recent evidence about public attitudes towards cohabitation. Public attitudes and the approach adopted in the 2006 Act are juxtaposed, raising questions about the alignment of public attitudes and the direction of law reform on cohabitation.

Family Policy focuses on the main family activities that are of concern in social policy and social work. This book explores how families behave and questions the implications for policies and practice. Perceptions of and responses to family 'pathologies' - teenage pregnancies, family breakdown, family poverty and violence - are examined. Core issues in family policy are considered, to help students to understand and evaluate the family policies at the hear of Labour's welfare reforms. This will be a valuable text, particularly for HE students with little previous knowledge of