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This article examines the shift on the part of formerly progressive local authorities, from a municipal socialist to a municipal pride stance. The author argues that this municipal pride approach to urban regene ration, capitulates to the shrunken horizons of the new marketised contract culture, whereby social service provision is separated from local authority delivery and is effectively privatised, creating a new and private relatiomhip between purchaser and provider. This forfeits the principle of the universality of welfare provision and, argues the author, amounts to a betrayal, by Labour authorities, of those con stituents who cannot wield the power that comes with being a purchas ing customer. The article then seeks to re-appropriate the terms of this new contracting environment and turn it against itself, in the process re-empowering those ordinarily disempowered by the unbridled workings of the market.

AbstractAn ongoing, innovative youth worker professional development is described in this article. This initiative began as youth worker professional development and then transcended to personal and organizational development. It grew from a moral response of Saint Paul Parks and Recreation staff and two faculty members of Youth Studies, University of Minnesota to offer higher‐quality services to youth for their healthy development. Its underlying philosophies and ethos included building and sustaining meaningful relationships, cocreating a space for learning and change, becoming a reflecting practitioner, and community organizing. This professional development responded to the participants' interests and needs or to local situations in that moment, that space, and the discussions, and took on different shapes at different times. There were many accomplishments of, challenges and barriers to, and lessons learned from this professional development.