Austerity, youth policy and the deconstruction of the youth service in England /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Tables; 1 Mapping and Contextualising the Territory: 2007-2018; The Neo-liberal Context: Via 'Market Freedoms' to 'Self-Regulation'; The Political Context: What 'Youth Voice'?; The Economic Context: A New 'Youth Precariat'; The 'Virtual' Context: Young People in a Digital World; Boundaries and Definitions; 'Young People'; Open Access Youth Work; The Local Authority Youth Service: History and Definition; Further Reading; Part I The New Labour Legacies; 2 Towards a New Model of Youth Services
- From Blair to Brown-So What Changed?Changing 'Agendas': From 'Respect' to 'Targeted Support'; Implementing Policy: From Connexions...; ... via Every Child Matters...; ... to Aiming High for Young People; Via 'Commissioning' to 'Contestability' and 'Outsourcing'; What Statutory Guidance?; From 'Community Cohesion'to 'Preventing Terrorism'; Further Reading; 3 Practice Under Pressure: From Youth Work to 'Positive Activities'; Youth Work: 'Pockets of Good Practice'; Youth Work: 'Down-at-Heart' and 'Can't Do'; Youth Work: 'Not Informal Education' but 'Positive Activities'
- Youth Work: Where Is the Process?A 'Youth' Building for Every Constituency; Open for the Weekend: 'Hoovering Young People off the Streets'; The End of New Labour, the Beginning of the End of the Youth Service?; Further Reading; Part II Austerity Bites; 4 The National Picture: From 'State Monopolies' to 'New Providers'; 'Breaking the State Monopolies'; In Search of 'New Providers': Commissioning, Outsourcing and Contracting Out; Downward Pressure: Local Services Unravelled; A 'Smoothie Approach' to the Youth Service: The National Picture; 'Philanthropy to the Rescue'?
- 'Explain the Difference You Make'Further Reading; 5 The Local Youth Service Experience; In Spite of 'Austerity'; And Then the Cuts; Beyond the Statutory Youth Service: Mutuals and Other Social Enterprises; In Search of New Money; The Lottery...; ... Philanthropy...; ... and by 'Socially Responsible' Business; Survival Without Sustainability; Further Reading; Part III Wider Youth Policy Agendas; 6 Remaking 'The Broken Society'; 'From Big Government to Big Society'; Changing the Political Philosophy; Doubts and Critiques; From Re-Launch to ...?; Big Society, Youth Policies and the Youth Service
- 'Serious About Localism'Early Intervention...; ... into Troubled Families; Further Reading; 7 Remoralising the Young; 'Instilling Character'; Nurturing 'Wellbeing'; The 'Prevent' Strategy-Updated; Separate Policies; Shared Ideological Drivers; Further Reading; 8 Parliamentary Scrutiny; Remit and Process; Open Access or Targeted?; 'Measuring Value and Impact'; Finding and Funding 'Providers': From Commissioning to Payment by Results; Debating the Report; The Primary Purpose of Government Funding for Youth Services and the Priority to Be Given to Open Access Provision