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		<title>Leveraging Sport for Social Cohesion and Youth Development: The Case for Community Fencing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Rainsford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this article Rose Hellyar explores the role of community fencing in youth work. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Faith and spirituality in the wake of scandal &#8211; implications for youth work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Fagg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this article, Naomi Thompson reflects on the implications for the youth work sector after attending an international symposium on ‘Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal’. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bridging Theory and Practice: Reflections from a Youth Work ‘Actitioner’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Clements]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Reconsidering the approach to political citizenship in youth work in England</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frances Howard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In light of the recent the UK government announcement of the lowering of the voting age to 16, Carole Pugh reconsiders the contribution of youth work to political citizenship.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Youth work is NOT a minimum wage profession &#8211; a plea from youth work educators to our National Youth Agency…</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 06:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Naomi Thompson and other HE colleagues argue that the NYA proposals to change the qualification framework for youth work will downgrade the profession.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Where Next for Youth Work?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gemma Lockyer Turnbull reflects on the history and tensions of the NCS and the future for youth services.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>BERA online event: The Overlaps and Intersections of Playwork and Youth Work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tina Salter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This online event explores the potential overlaps and intersections in services privided to children and young people in the UK, focusing on the perspective of playworkers and youth workers. While both professions aim to support the development and well-being of young people, they often operate within distinctive frameworks, with youth work typically emphasising personal and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>All-Parliamentary Party Group Report on Mental Health ‘Beyond Pills’: An Opportunity for Youth Work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frances Howard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jon Ord responds to the All Parliamentary Party Group report on mental health 'Beyond Pills', signposting the opportunities for youth work in this emerging non-medicalised space.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Becoming a Youth Worker: Contested approaches to education and training</title>
		<link>https://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/becoming-a-youth-worker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Muirhead]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this article, Cooper explores holistic youth work education, praxis and pracademia]]></description>
		
		
		
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