Youth and Policy Forthcoming Issue

Out in May 2008

Youth and Policy No 99, Spring 2008

The forthcoming issue of Youth and Policy, guest edited by Kate Philip, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, focuses specifically on youth mentoring.

Writing in an introduction she says: ‘In recent years, youth mentoring has become an element of youth policy in the UK, a development that few could have foreseen in the early nineteen nineties. The appeal of youth mentoring has run across diverse interests in statutory, voluntary and corporate sectors, an unusual feature for youth interventions. The enthusiasm of the current government and the resonance between the language of social inclusion and mentoring has undoubtedly contributed to the high public profile. It is also clear that many young people who have participated in successful mentoring, have also valued the experience.’

Among the articles included in the journal are:

Youth Mentoring and the Parent-Young Person Relationship: Considerations for Research and Practice

Pat Dolan, John Canavan and Bernadine Brady

Understanding Youth Exclusion: Critical moments, social networks and social capital

Tracy Shildrick and Robert MacDonald

Obligatory friends, surrogate kin: some questions for mentoring

Lynn Jamieson

Youth Mentoring: Improving programmes through research-based practice

Jean E Rhodes and Sarah Ryan Lowe

Youth Mentoring – a case for treatment

Kate Philip

Look out for the 100th issue of Youth and Policy, Summer 2008

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