Decision Time for the Youth Service

Short paper which attempts to identify some of the structural changes that have taken place around the Youth Service and make some assessment of what options it has for the future and if it can survive and prosper in a changing society.

Discrete Youth Work Within a Partnership Approach

Student assignment which seeks to critically analyse how effectively youth and community work is able to maintain its discrete way of working within a policy framework driven by a partnership approach.

Audit of Local Authority Youth Service 2000-2001

Summary of findings from 10 local authority Youth Services for 2000-2001, covering: 1. Details of Youth Service – location within LA / basic details 2. Youth population / spending per head / expenditure 3. Type of youth provision 4. Funding sources 5. Staffing levels 6. Staff development and training

The Development of Strategies to Reduce the Number of Young People Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)

Post-graduate strategic research project which examines, though both literature and analysis of existing partnership systems and practice, how collaborative working, leadership, shared governance and innovation at a local level can reduce the numbers of young people who become NEET. Recommendations are also made as to how local authorities and related partnerships can work together to lower the number of … Continued