Called This is Youth Work: Stories from Practice, the book has been produced with support from Unison and Unite/the Community and Youth Workers' Union to help the campaign’s calls to protect youth services budgets.
Each story aims to give a detailed picture of how youth workers build trust and relationships with young people and offer support.
Tony Taylor, spokesman for the In Defence of Youth Work steering group, hopes the book can be used by youth workers to help politicians and senior council officials better understand the support they offer young people.
He added: "At a time when nearly one million 16- to 24-year-olds are unemployed and as the current onslaught on public services continues with youth services facing hugely disproportionate cuts, the need to defend provision like youth work has never been greater or more urgent."
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