It will inform debate about the nature and impact of the interventions youth workers make, the standards they aspire to and their professional formation and development.
Andy Hopkinson, The NYA's head of media services, said: "These days everybody claims to be doing youth work but often the very practice which forms the bedrock of it tends to get overlooked. This book describes and explains good youth work, drawing on the reflective practice of those who do it."
It has been written for The NYA by consultant Bryan Merton who visited a range of projects to observe youth workers in action. He said: "We hope to make youth work practice explicit, visible and comprehensible; and reveal its complexities, nuances and the different kinds of knowledge, skill, resource and insight that youth workers draw on every day."
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