Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 12, 2008
Community Development Journal 2008 43(4):515-517; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn032
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Youth Work: Voices of Practice – A Research Report by Durham University and Weston Spirit
Community and Youth Work, Department of Professional and Community Education, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 6NW, UK
e-mail: k.shukra@gold.ac.uk
Jean Spence and Carol Devanney, Durham University with Kylie Noonan as research project manager from Weston Spirit, The National Youth Agency, Leicester, March 2006, 159 pp, ISBN 978 0 86155 338 9, £8.50.
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This text will appeal to youth work students, to readers of the Community Development Journal with a particular interest in youth work and to those who are simply curious about what doing youth work in the UK means. The report does not aim to engage in theoretical debate but is a final report from a two-year research project funded by the Big Lottery Fund that argues for the importance of articulating what is distinctive about youth work while providing