<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article brings together four different perspectives which explore the way in which various policy initiatives in recent years have sought to construct young people resident in the United Kingdom within particular policy discourses shaped by neoliberalism. In order to do this it firstly considers the way in which the assumptions of neoliberalism have increasingly been applied by the new Coalition Government to young people and the services provided for them; it then considers the particular role of New Labour in the UK in applying these ideas in practice. Specific examples from the areas of young people’s participation in youth services and higher education policy are then considered.</p></abstract>

This article brings together four different perspectives which explore the way in which various policy initiatives in recent years have sought to construct young people resident in the United Kingdom within particular policy discourses shaped by neoliberalism. In order to do this it firstly considers the way in which the assumptions of neoliberalism have increasingly been applied by the new Coalition Government to young people and the services provided for them; it then considers the particular role of New Labour in the UK in applying these ideas in practice. Specific examples from the areas of young people’s participation in youth services and higher education policy are then considered.

Young People’s Services in an Age of Neoliberalism

Newman University College, School of Human Sciences, Genners Lane, Bartley Green, B32 3NT Birmingham,

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Social Change Review

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This article brings together four different perspectives which explore the way in which various policy initiatives in recent years have sought to construct...

Young People’s Services in an Age of Neoliberalism

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 189 - 206

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scr-2016-0013

Keywords
Young people, Youth services, Higher education, Neoliberalism

© by Graham Brotherton

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Young People’s Services in an Age of Neoliberalism

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 189 - 206

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scr-2016-0013

KeywordsYoung people, Youth services, Higher education, Neoliberalism

© by Graham Brotherton

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Young people, Youth services, Higher education, Neoliberalism