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‘Down with the kids’? Examining the male youth worker as role model and mentor to young men involved in violence

Publication: April 2019
Harris argues a psychosocial approach is useful for youth work involving ex-offenders as role models with young people around youth violence....

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A Statutory Youth Service proposal: multi-professionally located to build on the past yet equipped for the future

Publication: April 2019
Naomi Robinson's and Tim Howell's proposals for youth policy...

Death of a Service

Publication: April 2019
Carole Pugh mourns and investigates the death of 'Project 129'...

Re/membering Resilience – a reflection on resilience and youth work

Publication: March 2019
This article explores the concept of resilience and its resonance in the lives of young people, specifically in relation to ‘community’, influential others, and emotional, social and personal development and agency. The article considers the development of the concept since 2010, and proposes that this is a concept which needs to be re-visited....

Transferring European youth policy into local youth policy

Publication: February 2019
Hofmann-van de Poll, Riedle & Friedrich discuss the EU Youth Strategy's implementation...

Challenging the taken-for-granted: A review of Duffy’s (2017) ‘Evaluation and governing in the 21st century’

Publication: January 2019
In this piece, Tania de St Croix reviews Deirdre Duffy's book: 'Evaluation and governing in the 21st Century: Disciplinary measures, transformative possibilities'. de St Croix describes how Duffy looks at evaluation and evidence-based practice in light of government policy and reflects on the arguments put forward by Duffy for evaluation to be transformative in approach....