Research report of a small-scale, qualitative study of youth workers-in-training, talking to those studying in and delivering professional youth worker courses in Wales. Conducted during the latter half of 2006, stretching into 2007, by two researchers from North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI).

Examines how best to provide education and training for youth workers and the tensions that suggest, on the one hand, those competent in the practice of youth work are best placed to provide professional training whilst, on the other, academics within higher education institutions (HEIs) produce the necessary blend to create professional understandings, knowledge and skills.