Austerity, Youth Policy and the Deconstruction of the Youth Service in England
Austerity, Youth Policy and the Deconstruction of the Youth Service in England

Author: Bernard Davies

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-29

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 3030038866

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This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis. Davies frames his research within the ideological, political and economic context of the last decade, contemplating the prescriptions of neoliberalism, and various other socio-political developments. He illustrates how wider government policies, programmes and initiatives have marred the purposes and methods of the Youth Service and youth work facilities, forging connections with what this means for young people and youth work. Unique in its depth and detail, this book is one of the first comprehensive, evidenced and up-to-date accounts of UK Youth Policy. It is an essential and invaluable resource for youth educators, researchers, service managers, practitioners and activists, as well as scholars and students of youth studies, social policy, public policy, and history.

Against Youth Violence
Against Youth Violence

Author: Luke Billingham

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1529214076

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For many children and young people, Britain is a harmful society in which to grow up. This book contextualizes the violence that occurs between a small number of young people within a wider perspective on social harm. Aimed at academics, youth workers and policy makers, the book presents a new way to make sense of this pressing social problem. The authors also propose measures to substantially improve the lives of Britain’s young people in areas ranging from the early years to youth services and the criminal justice system.

Youth Work, Galleries and the Politics of Partnership
Youth Work, Galleries and the Politics of Partnership

Author: Nicola Sim

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3030251977

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This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to create sustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual art organisations and youth organisations. Using a Bourdieusian framework, this book analyses the different social and professional worlds of youth work and gallery education and explores why tensions often arise between partners in these fields. Written at a time of significant crisis for the UK youth sector and in the context of an entrenched neoliberal policy climate, this publication seeks to highlight hopeful, experimental practice and possibilities for creative resistance. With public organisations and services under ever-greater governmental pressure to pursue collaborations within and across sectors, this is a timely moment to examine the challenges, ethics and advantages of working together, and to bring theoretical discussion to dominant yet vague understandings of partnership.

Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope
Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope

Author: Kathleen Gallagher

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9811512825

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This book explores the affective and relational lives of young people in diverse urban spaces. By following the trajectories of diverse young people as they creatively work through multiple and unfolding global crises, it asks how arts-based methodologies might answer the question: How do we stand in relation to others, those nearby and those at great distances? The research draws on knowledges, research traditions, and artistic practices that span the Global North and Global South, including Athens (Greece), Coventry (England), Lucknow (India), Tainan (Taiwan), and Toronto (Canada) and curates a way of thinking about global research that departs from the comparative model and moves towards a new analytic model of thinking multiple research sites alongside one another as an approach to sustaining dialogue between local contexts and wider global concerns.

Being Connected / Our Voices Heard
Being Connected / Our Voices Heard

Author: Marc Bush

Publisher: Youth United Foundation

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Being Connected explores experiences of youth loneliness, and the implications for young people's mental health in the UK. Reflecting on the contribution that uniformed youth services make to addressing youth loneliness, the report 'Our Voices Heard' includes the findings from youth-led research by the Youth United Foundation Youth Panel. Licensed from 2019 by Youth United Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Understanding Safeguarding for Children and their Educational Experiences
Understanding Safeguarding for Children and their Educational Experiences

Author: William McGovern

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-06-17

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 180262709X

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This book builds on current government publications, and collectively supports the endeavours of schools, universities, trainee teachers/ECTs and school support staff in relation to understanding the concepts of vulnerability, enhancing pupil engagement, and risk and resilience.

The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood
The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood

Author: Bren Neale

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2024-02-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 144735172X

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Around 1 in 10 children born in the UK are fathered by men under the age of 25. These men are often from socially disadvantaged areas and frequently overlooked in both research and practice settings. Using findings from a major Economic and Social Research Council study, supplemented with additional data, the authors focus on the transitions of the young men into early parenthood and their unfolding lives thereafter. As negative popular and media discourse around young fathers begins to shift, policy makers, practitioners, researchers and students will find future policy and practice directions designed to nurture the potential of these young men and their children.

Looking Good Naked
Looking Good Naked

Author: Andy du Feu

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1725251833

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What would it look like if an Avenger turned up to help in youth work? Perhaps it would breathe a fresh sense of purpose. Maybe the primary response would be relief that backup had arrived. They would certainly pull a crowd for a few weeks at least. Looking for a superhero might be a good idea. But there is a better one. It’s called the church. Boring? Irrelevant? All dressed up but nowhere to go? Looking Good Naked strips off the ill-fitting outfits and recovers a biblical theology of the church as the body of Christ, drawing on the narratives of youth work and ministry. Written for the student of youth ministry, full-timer, part-timer or extra-timer, it is an engaging, practical, and deep book, seeking to renew our confidence in who we are in light of whose we are, so we can better engage with young people.

Young and Lonely
Young and Lonely

Author: Batsleer, Janet

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1447355350

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Anchored in accounts of young people’s personal experiences of loneliness, this book addresses important questions about tackling today’s epidemic of loneliness among young people. It explores experiences of loneliness in early life, how it is navigated when first encountered and considers how social conditions of poverty, precarity, inequality and competitive pressures to succeed can dramatically influence these feelings. Presenting diverse and nuanced social accounts of loneliness, the authors explore ways to harness the creative and positive potential of loneliness and provide evidence-based recommendations for policy makers, practitioners and young people to help tackle the crisis.