Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Youth Work, Welfare and the State; T.Jeffs & M.Smith The Youth Service and the Threat to Welfare; T.Jeffs & M.Smith The Political Economy of Youth Work; T.Jeffs & M.Smith Local Authorities and Youth Work: The Effect of Declining Autonomy; K.Shaw with T.Jeffs & M.Smith Youth Work and Schooling; T.Jeffs & M.Smith The DES and Youthwork; D.Scott with N.Ritchie Youth Workers, the MSC and the Youth Training Scheme; H.Williamson Finding a Way in: Youth Workers and Juvenile Justice; R.Adams Young People, Youth Workers and the Police; M.Marken & D.Smith Professionalism or Trade Unionism: The Search for a Collective Identity; B.Davies Training the Professional Worker; Y.Ahmad & R.Kirby Conclusion; T.Jeffs & M.Smith.

About the Author

TONY JEFFS is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. He was the founding editor of the journal Youth and Policy MARK SMITH is a tutor at the YMCA National College. He has previoulsy worked as co-ordinator of the NAYC Political Education Project and as a youth community worker TONY JEFFS and MARK SMITH are both editors of Youth Work (1987) and Young People, Inequality and Youth Work