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		<title>Youth &amp; Policy and CONCEPT go Digital</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/youth-policy-and-concept-go-digital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two leading journals in the fields of Youth Work and Youth policy, Community Education and Community Development, Youth &#38; Policy and CONCEPT respectively, are about to enter a new and exciting era.  Having lost their publishers, the National Youth Agency and the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education, both have decided to launch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=436&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chatting with Young People about the &#8216;Posties&#8217; on Strike</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/chatting-with-young-people-about-the-posties-on-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press coverage of the Communication Workers&#8217; Union dispute with Royal Mail, even when slightly sympathetic, shakes its collective head at the apparent hopelessness of the workers&#8217; situation. We get little insight into the day-to-day experience of the workers themselves. It is not stretching a point to note that this lack of anecdotal analysis chimes with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=434&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Labour&#8217;s Authoritarianism Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are these the dying days of New Labour? Popular opinion believes so. If this is the case, it is significant that New Labour shows no sign of altering its deep hostility to and mistrust of significant sections of the population. Devoid of any moral compass, symbolised by the infamous Mandelson&#8217;s resurrection, it continues to pursue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=430&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Social [and Youth Work] 35 Years On!</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/radical-social-and-youth-work-35-years-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADVANCE NOTICE from Michael Lavalette, Associate Professor of Social Work, Liverpool Hope University.


I&#8217;m writing to let you know about a major conference that is being held at Liverpool Hope University on 3 February 2010. The one-day conference is to mark the 35th anniversary of the publication of the seminal text Radical Social Work by Roy Bailey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=425&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Seriously about Work with Girls and Young Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking Seriously 
About Youth Work and Work With Girls and Young Women

Conference 
22nd 23rd March 2010 
Hinsley Hall, Leeds

 
The second of the biannual ‘Thinking Seriously’ conferences organized by ‘Youth and Policy’ is to focus on the subject of Work With Girls and Young Women. 


 
The intention of the ‘Thinking Seriously’ conferences is to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=420&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chatting Critically to Young People about &#8230;..Drugs</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/chatting-critically-to-young-people-about-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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For many a year Drugs Education has been a lucrative source of finance within Youth Work. And, of course, it has seemed  utterly the right thing to be doing. None of us want to see young lives wrecked by drugs. And yet, of course, many of us take drugs &#8211; between 2 and 5 million [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=417&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Twitter: Young People and Youth work in a digital age.</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/beyond-twitter-young-people-and-youth-work-in-a-digital-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[making alliances]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure about &#8216;beyond Twitter&#8217;, about being &#8216;post-Twitter&#8217; as I&#8217;ve yet to tweet.  This will come as no surprise to those, who suffer my frequent lapses into verbosity. This admitted I might still wear with pride the T-shirt, Never Texted, Never Tweeted: I&#8217;m the Discourse Kid! Although as this slogan is less than 140 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=412&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Reading!</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/holiday-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been neglecting the Critically Chatting Blog in favour of putting energy into the In Defence of Youth Work campaign. However with holidays on the horizon I&#8217;m taking this opportunity to offer an eclectic mix of articles,  which you might dip into over the next few weeks.
With  the prospect of an Iraq inquiry back on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=408&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practice Revealed: The Moral Impasse</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/practice-revealed-the-moral-impasse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t apologise for this double posting. It appeared on the In Defence site a couple of hours ago. Very stimulating, in my opinion.
At the Preston In Defence of Youth Work meeting on Friday, June 12,we touched briefly on the need for workers to tell their own stories of practice. We mourned the lack of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=406&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snouts in the trough&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/snouts-in-the-trough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just received the National Coalition for Independent Action May newsletter.
NCIA MAY NEWSLETTER
It&#8217;s a splendid mix of information, analysis and gossip. The opening thoughts on &#8217;snouts in the trough&#8217;  muse whether this is the moment  to put into question  the whole democratic charade.  More from ourselves on the redundancy of representative democracy soon. I enjoyed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&blog=5570204&post=402&subd=criticallychatting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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