Its 40 pages cover all areas of Agency activity and future plans, as well as a calendar giving key dates around which youth workers may want to plan activity next year.
Limited paper copies of the report are available free of charge on request.
Please email isabelled@nya.org.uk or andyh@nya.org.uk or telephone 0116 285 3758. The report is also available as a pdf file on The Agency's website at www.nya.org.uk.
Other recent publications from The Agency include Issue 81 Autumn 2003 of its journal of critical analysis of youth affairs and youth policy, Youth and Policy.
Articles include a look at young people's political participation in the UK; young people, community cohesion and the role of youth work in building social capital; young people, race relations and racism; and findings from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Detached and Outreach Research Project. To subscribe (price 25 for four issues), contact NYA Publication Sales. Email: sales@nya.org.uk. For a sample copy email: andyh@nya.org.uk.
The Agency has also joined forces with 42nd Street, the Manchester-based mental health organisation, to sell copies of Who's Hurting Who? Young people, self-harm and suicide by Helen Spandler. This book, based on intensive and often disturbingly frank individual and group interviews with young people, provides vivid evidence on how, for them, self-harming and attempts at suicide have a range of positive functions. It highlights young people's own ambivalence about their behaviour and explores the dilemmas facing would-be helpers. Available, price 12.45 from NYA Publication Sales. Tel: 0116 285 3709. Email: sales@nya.org.uk
The Agency has also introduced a special offer on its New Perspectives research series, produced in partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council's Youth, Citizenship and Social Change programme. A set of the eight titles in the series is now available for 40, a saving of 12. Details from NYA Sales as above.
