BA dissertation which examines if the drive towards interprofessional practice and the creation of the 2020 Children and Young People’s Workforce Strategy (DCSF, 2008) provide a case for European Social Pedagogy and its practices to be introduced into the landscape of working with children and young people in Wales? 

BA (Hons) Youth & Community Work Dissertation.

To monitor and evaluate the Afon Youth Forum's alternative housing project in Torfaen to ensure it meets the needs and aspirations of the young people it works with.

This resource attempts to provide a very broad overview of the policy context in which Youth Work and services for young people are developing in Wales. It also includes useful links to organisations working with young people in Wales and links to other publications and resources particularly relevant to practice in Wales.

Clubs for Young People in Wales, 2009

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.

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.

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

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 NEET young people in their area.

Diagram of Carmarthenshire Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) Strategy to accompany Post-graduate strategic research project report.

Bilingual document which updates the Youth Work Curriculum Statement for Wales. The main objective of the document is to set out the key principles which underpin youth work and to provide an overview of its nature, purposes and delivery. The content of the document applies specifically to youth work in Wales but is likely to be consistent with youth work principles, purposes and practice in other parts of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland.