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.

Document which describes all of the Welsh Assembly Government programmes which impact on the lives of children and young people, in the context of the aims and priorities in Assembly's strategic plan, Better Wales. It sets out the principles which should underpin provision for children, with reference to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and based on relevant legislation, particularly the Human Rights Act 1998. It proposes a way in which all of the local partners who provide services for children and young people can work together in an integrated framework, designed to meet the needs of children rather than those of service providers. It places at the centre of this activity the requirement to listen and respond to the views of children and young people themselves.