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Working with young people on risk of social exclusion in public spaces

Professor of European Youth Policy at the University of Glamorgan. Previously he worked at the universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Copenhagen. He is a JNC qualified youth worker and has been involved in youth work practice for many years.

He has worked on a range of ‘youth issues’ such as learning, justice, substance misuse, exclusion and citizenship at European and national levels. Currently he co-ordinates the Council of Europe’s international reviews of national youth policies. One of his more recent books is The Milltown Boys Revisited (Berg 2004), a follow-up study of a group of men who were young offenders in the 1970s.

He has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Education Select Committee, and has sat on numerous governmental committees (for policy initiatives such as the New Deal for Young People kin the UK, and Extending Entitlement in Wales) and was a Board member of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales between 2001 and 2008. He is a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. He was appointed CBE in 2002 for services to young people.