Critical analysis of issues and policies relating to young people

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Youth & Policy offers a space for the critical analysis of issues and policies relating to young people.

A critical analysis of informal youth diversion policy in the Republic of Ireland

Publication: June 2018
Katharina Swirak critiques policy related to the Irish Youth Justice Service which is under review and proposes how changes could positively enable practitioners to use a more transformative approach....

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Mixing young people, collaborative art-making and work experience placement: lessons learned from the Youth Forum project by The Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Publication: May 2018
Tina Salter shares the wider learning from the evaluation of a participatory arts project....

Managing managerialism - how the 21st Century manager can truly thrive

Publication: May 2018
Hampson and Howell unpick some of the challenges managers of youth services face and posit how best to navigate these in order to ensure that remaining services survive future threats to funding....

Winning a Statutory Youth Service

Publication: May 2018
Time for a new statutory Youth Service. Nicholls describes how the youth service has been demolished in recent years and why he is hopeful that significant changes might be on the horizon....

Becoming adult: transitions in a context of disadvantage

Publication: April 2018
Eric Carlin explores the transition into adulthood for young people from Pilton, North Edinburgh....

Street Grooming, Criminality and Culture

Publication: March 2018
John Pitts critiques the recent Quilliam Foundation report which claimed a link between Asian culture and street grooming....