Working with rather than for partner organisations: re-defining the role of youth work in safeguarding young people from extra-familial harm.

这项研究的重点是青年工作如何保护年轻人免受家庭外伤害(EFH--年轻人在户外度过的地方遇到的伤害)。开放获取的青年工作是非正式的、自愿的、关系的、集体的，并受青年议程的影响，可以在保护青年免受EFH伤害方面发挥独特的作用。尽管如此，在整个欧洲，青年工作保护年轻人免受伤害的潜力并未得到承认。相反，青年工作的角色被新自由主义意识形态所定义。青年工作的主要做法模式将其作为一种符合社会规范的工具，在支持警察和社会关怀等其他关键保障伙伴的保障做法方面发挥作用。这导致青年工作与这些其他部门的议程相一致，这些部门的议程往往将他们所经历的伤害归咎于年轻人，这些部门正在努力与社区中的年轻人合作并保护他们免受伤害。这项研究将探索青年工作的社会公正方法如何为经历EFH的年轻人创造安全。这项研究使用了一种独特的人种学方法来理解如何在一个开放获取的青年工作组织中创建、实践和体验与EFH相关的保护。这项研究将对了解青年工作如何按照他们的条件保护年轻人，以及青年工作部门如何与合作组织而不是伙伴组织合作来改善年轻人的福利至关重要。

The research focuses on how youth work can safeguard young people from extra-familial harm (EFH- harm that young people encounter in places they spend their time outside of the home). Open access youth work that is informal, voluntary, relational, collective and shaped by young people's agendas can play adistinctive role in safeguarding young people from EFH. Despite this, across Europe youth work's potential to safeguard young people from harm is not recognised. Youth work's role is instead defined by neoliberal ideologies. Dominant practice models for youth work frame it as a vehicle of social conformity with a role to play in supporting other key safeguarding partners, such as The Police and Social Care, in safeguarding practice. This has resulted in youth work working to the agendas of these other sectorsagendaswhich often blame young people for harm they experience, and which are struggling to work with and protect young people from harm in their communities.The study will explore the ways a social justice approach for youth work can create safety for young people experiencing EFH. The study employs a unique ethnographic methodology to understand how safeguarding is created, practiced, and experienced in relation to EFH in an open access youth work organisation. The research will be crucial to understanding how youth work can safeguard young people on their terms and how the youth work sector can work with rather than for partner organisations to improve the welfare of young people.