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.

Text of lecture which reflects on the past and attempts to identify what changes lie ahead for the Youth Service

Summary of advances brought about by the Albemarle report of 1960.

Adolescents and Society By James Hemming Phd The Arthur Mellows Lecture 1962. Part of a pack of significant documents relating to the origins and development of youth work.  Of particular value to policy makers, trainers and students.

Community Education – Keynote Address 1. Community education embraces the Process of making possible, and encouraging, the expression of educational needs by the less well educated part of society as well as those who are better "educationally experienced". Community education - and hence community development - focuses increasingly on adult and youth and community groups developing "awareness" and the necessary democratic and social skills to take successful action on their own behalf. It …

Report on project to attract older teenage girls and address their concerns. Workshops on Health & Beauty, Family Planning, Rape and Self Defence, and Drugs and Alcohol Abuse were held.

Illustration of youth work  training opportunities available in Wales.