Parental mental illness (PMI) can negatively affect the lives of all family members, and there is an acknowledged need to work attentively with family and social contexts to promote recovery. However, programmes undertaking ...

There has been significant recent research and policy interest in issues of young people’s occupational aspirations, transitions to employment and the antecedents of NEET (not in employment, education or training) status.Many ...

This article will explore the history of vocational services very briefly, explore recent policy shifts and ask why, despite so many shifts in policy and programme, disabled young people’s access to training and employment ...

From 2001, Connexions was phased in across England to meet policy visions centred on uniting youth-oriented services into a coherent whole, and providing universal advice and guidance alongside targeted support. Recent ...

There is a widespread current perception that being ‘NEET’ (not in employment, education or training) presents a major risk for young people of becoming socially excluded. One of the key foci for combating social exclusion ...

Although New Labour distanced itself from the neo-liberal ‘underclass’ discourses of its predecessors, its approach to disabled young people maintained 10 key aspects of neo-liberalism, particularly an emphasis on ...

Michel Foucault’s work focused on questions such as how, within specific systems of knowledge, certain characteristics of people (such as mental capacities) become constructed as specific problems (such as “learning ...

Mulhaüsler and Harré contend that pronoun systems set out fields of expression ‘within which people can be… presented as agents of one kind or another.’ Despite interest in pronominal forms by various discourse researchers, ...