Board of Education (1940) The Challenge of Youth (Circular 1516), London, HMSO.
Board of Education (1943) The Youth Service After the War. A report of the Youth Advisory Council appointed by the President of the Board of Education in 1942 to advise him on questions relating to the Youth Service in England, London, HMSO.
Ministry of Education (1945) The Purpose and Content of the Youth Service. A Report of the Youth Advisory Council appointed by the Minister of Education in 1943, London, HMSO. This Report of the Youth Advisory Council appointed by the Minister of Education in 1943 (and published in 1945), provides a classic statement of youth work as non-vocational group work.
Department of Education and Science (1967) Immigrants and the Youth Service (‘The Hunt Report’), London, HMSO
Scottish Education Department (1968) Community of Interests. Schools, Youth Service, Community Service, Further Education Colleges, Evening Classes and Sports Organisations, Edinburgh, HMSO.
Scottish Education Department (1975) Adult Education. The challenge of change. Report by a Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Secretary of State for Scotland under the Chairmanship of Professor K. J. W. Alexander, Edinburgh, HMSO.
1980-1999
Department of Education and Science (1982) Experience and Participation. Review Group on the Youth Service in England (‘The Thompson Report’), London, HMSO.
HMI (Wales) (1984) Youth Service Provision in Wales. Education Survey 13. 2 vols., London, HMSO.
Ministerial Conferences Steering Committee (1990) Towards a Core Curriculum – The next step. Report of responses to the Ministerial Conferences Steering Committee Consultation Document, Leicester, National Youth Bureau.
Scottish Office Education Department (1991) Youth Work in Scotland. A report by HM Inspectors of Schools, Edinburgh, HMSO.
2000-
Department for Education and Skills (2002) Transforming Youth Work – resourcing excellent youth services, London: Department for Education and Skills/Connexions. (pdf file – requires Acrobat reader). Published in December 2002, this is the English Department of Education and Skills’ specification for youth services. It continued and refined the government’s ‘modernization’ attempt to alter the character of youth service work.
HM Treasury (2007) Aiming high for young people: A ten year strategy for positive activities. London: HM Treasury/Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Acknowledgement: Picture: Boys at the Canterbury Club, part of the Oxford and Bermondsey Boys Club, listening to records on the club’s radiogram in 1944. Imperial War Museum – sourced from Wikimedia Commons – public domain.