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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- Acknowledgement -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Early History of Youth Work Practice -- Graham Bright -- Introduction -- Framing Youth Work -- Our Contemporary Need for History -- The Contextual Backdrop to Youth Work's Emergence:A Critical View -- The Emergence of Adolescence -- Tracing Histories -- The Great War -- Between the Wars -- Conclusion -- 2 State Beneficence or Government Control?Youth Work from Circular 1486 to 1996 -- Simon Bradford -- Introduction -- Wartime Youth Work: Incipient Professionalism -- Into the Postwar Period: Welfare Professionalism -- The New Right and Thatcherism: Performative Professionalism -- Conclusion -- 3 In the Service of the State: Youth Work underNew Labour -- Howard Sercombe -- Introduction -- Background: The British Labour Party and Neo-liberalism -- Third Way -- New Labour and Youth Work -- Connexions -- New Labour in Scotland: Working and Learning Together -- Conclusion -- 4 Volunteers and Entrepreneurs? Youth Work and the Big Society -- Tania de St Croix -- Introducing the Big Society -- Cuts and Redundancies -- Neo-liberal Youth Policy: Celebrating the Entrepreneur -- Diversifying Organizations -- The National Citizen Service -- Conclusion: Youth Work and the Shadow State -- 5 Local Authority Youth Work -- Pat Norris and Carole Pugh -- Introduction -- The Context for English Local Authority Youth Services:We're 'Positive for Youth'- but with No Budget -- Current Challenges within Local Authority Provision:Themes Emerging from the Case Studies -- Reducing 'Universal' Provision? -- Renewed Awareness of and Relationship with the Voluntaryand Community Sector -- Conclusion: What Can Endure within Local AuthorityYouth Work? -- 6 Youth Work in the Voluntary Sector.

A decade of deep funding cuts has seen a huge reduction in provision for young people. But increasing recognition of the valuable role played by youth workers could signal a change in fortunes for the sector

This chapter will consider the inherent possibilities and problems in conceptualising youth work in schools. It will examine potential synergies between a curriculum for educational youth work and contemporary curricula in school education, drawing on the emerging Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) (Scottish Government, 2013) as a potentially useful means of facilitating social change. The chapter will explore some of the 'hidden knowns' that youth workers routinely apply in practice encounters including school settings. This exploration suggests that while these 'knowns' contribute to practice, they can also limit perspectives on whether youth work can be authentically conceptualised in a school setting. Current changes in policy direction of policy for formal schooling across the UK brings into focus different ideas such as free or home schooling and identifies new roles and possibilities for youth workers in schools.

Ethis is a vital issue for youth workers. Youth work projects are often established to encourage an ethical purpose among young people and this book helps youth workers to think about ways of developing ethical reflection in young people. It considers the establishment of organisations, by neighbourhoods and networks, to express an ethical purpose among young people. Youth work professionals will learn how to site their practice within the professional code and work in complex and unpredictable contexts. The book also encourages youth workers to think about the development of ethical reflectio

A contemporary reflection on current practice, this book gets to the heart of what 'youth work' is about. It provides an in-depth overview and analysis of practice,addressing the many experiences of working with young people through insightful chapters written by practitioners themselves.

What does it mean to practice youth work ethically? How does ethical theory relate to the youth work profession? What are the moral dilemmas confronting youth workers today, and how should practitioners respond? Youth Work Ethics examines these questions and more and should be on the reading lists of all youth work trainees and practitioners. A wide range of topics are covered, including: confidentiality; sexual propriety; dependence and empowerment; equity of provision; interprofessional working; managing dual relationships; working across cultures; working within an agency

Despite deep cuts to funding and service provision, youth organisations are developing new ways to demonstrate the beneficial impact they have on improving life outcomes for vulnerable young people

With the proposed development of the 'youth professional' and the consolidation of graduate professional qualifications, this is an important time for youth work. This book sets out the current state of debate about youth work for those considering, or about to embark on, a degree course. Contemporary debates in youth work are explored, and help to give students a sense of its history and its future contribution. By combining the experience of its editors and the contemporaneous experience of the voices of contributors, this book provides an excellent introduction to work as a youth worker in the twenty-first century.

With the proposed development of the youth professional and the consolidation of graduate professional qualifications, this is an important time for youth work. This book sets out the current state of debate about youth work for those considering, or about to embark on, a degree course. Contemporary debates in youth work are explored, and help to give students a sense of its history and its future contribution. By combining the experience of its editors and the contemporaneous experience of the voices of contributors, this book provides an excellent introduction to work as a youth worker in th

Informal Learning in Youth Work offers fresh perspectives on all aspects of informal education in the youth work setting. Designed to develop the reader's knowledge and skills, this comprehensive textbook explores key issues such as communication, power relations, ethics, gender exclusion, sexuality, race discrimination and social class. The author places particular emphasis on conversation as a key means of promoting informal learning and engaging effectively with young people. Other key features include