Professional practice is at the heart of youth work training but integrating the theory learned
in class with the reality of placements can sometimes require extra support. This …

This paper questions current approaches to youth work practice and evaluation in England
and suggests that current practices based on tick-box targets and outcomes compromise the …

Simon Bradford is Associate Reader in Social Science in the Department of Clinical
Sciences at Brunel University, London. His main research interests lie in social policy …

This chapter explores the use of storytelling as part of a curriculum and method for teaching
youth work within a higher education environment, focusing on the in defence of Youth Work …

While there is considerable support among the policy, practice and academic communities
for the idea that practice in youth work should be based on evidence, Veerman and Van …

Research is where communities, social groups and the issues they face are identified,
defined and analysed and is thus of critical value in community work and youth work. In the …

Collaborative governance theories are well debated, however the current body of
knowledge identifies the evaluation of collaborative governance settings as problematic …

Previous chapters have highlighted how the notion of risk has become a prevailing feature
of social policy for young people. At the core of this emphasis in the UK, and in many other …

This thesis contributes to knowledge surrounding recent changes in the youth services
sector in England and Wales, 2007-2022. Incorporating the age of austerity, this period saw …

4.2 Why Evidence?“The field of evidence is no other than the field of knowledge”(Bentham
cited in Twining 2006) The Leverhulme Trust in 2002 outlined the contemporary importance …