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		<title>Bridging Theory and Practice: Reflections from a Youth Work ‘Actitioner’</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this post Catherine Wilkinson reflects on her unconventional journey from interdisciplinary academic research to youth worker-in-becoming. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Colluding with Control: The Reconfiguration of Youth Work Education in England</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Danny Connelly argues that the NYA is colluding with a neoliberal ideological project, through its downgrading of the youth work qualifying level in England.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Ged Turner evaluates governance structures overseeing youth work policies in England and Wales, and highlights where these have overlapped and diverged. He suggests how good governance can ensure positive policy decisions are made in the future.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Hughes et al explore how neoliberal culture impacts on children's services workers engaging in a cultural exchange programme and argue for more space for collective reflective practice.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>(Un)Happy 21st Birthday NEET! A genealogical approach to understanding young people Not in Education, Employment or Training</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Liam Wrigley traces how use of the term NEET has impacted on governance of young people over the last 21 years. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tina Salter]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Julian Molina explores the closure of Kids Company and outlines the analytic potential of examining organisational closure and collapse.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi Thompson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Liam Wrigley explores how 'NEET' young people have become 'lost in the system' through recent policy and practice around unemployment.]]></description>
		
		
		
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