We look at youth work in its entire diversity, covering services as well as activities for and with young people of a social, cultural, educational or political nature. We describe and question the changing nature of youth and community work, caused by the enormous difficulties to ensure adequate access to education, housing and employment.
Globally, youth work remains, to this day, a vastly under-supported profession. Much of the infrastructure is absent or lacking, from training and education to evaluation and monitoring. Financial backup is
How time flies! Three years of building an evidence-base for youth policy have gone by, with several extensions of our website to accommodate libraries, fact sheets, databases and mappings… Time
Riin Lumiste, International Youth Work Coordinator at Tähe Youth Club in Tartu, Estonia, here tells of how a youth exchange brought to light the troubling spectre of racism in our
“… [T]he key is attitude, having confidence in young people, having affection for them, having enthusiasm for them developing in their own particular ways… And of course listening, adults listening,
“For me, there wasn't a list of things to be achieved.Opportunities would present themselves. It was using the opportunities, using your benevolent relationship, warmth of relationship to achieve the
Can youth work have a role in social change? Do youth workers have a responsibility to respond to social change, and to its effects on young people? Do youth workers
“If it's someone smoking a joint, than it's well sod it, ok, it’s illegal, but it's not actually my role to get involved with low levels of criminality... It's a
This paper will focus on the developments within youth service provision in England, post 2000, culminating with the introduction of the Youth Matters legislation. This has interested me as a
“The difficulty I had was that working with poor white kids became very unfashionable, no less necessary, but that got very low status in the system and in many ways
“I suppose in a way it is romantic to imagine going out into a wild uncharted space and making up your curriculum and making up your ethos and your plans
