ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the different types of partnerships that youth workers engage with. It identifies three key areas for successful engagement with a partnership: knowledge, attitudes and skills. The chapter focuses on interagency partnerships, in recognition that many types of partnership exist. Youth workers can often be found as active contributors to partnerships. Perhaps the most common form of partnership work is that which occurs at an informal level, where youth workers work alongside others to deliver activities or projects with young people that involve the active engagement of other professionals. A linked point concerns the aims of the partnership and the extent to which are driven by dominant agencies within the group or reflect broader, collective aims. Often, the working context of a partnership is determined by the attitudes and approaches that individual practitioners bring to collaborative working arrangements. People knowledge and attitudes help their in understanding and contributing to partnerships.
