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Working With Communities

Reading list

For a complete list of books recommended by Working With Communities course tutors, please click here. You can check availability on the Library catalogue.

Athens e-resources

You will need an Athens login to use these resources - find out how to do this here. After registration, you can use Athens anywhere that you have internet access.

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ebrary

Working With Communities Topics

Lifelong learning

Infed - The informal education homepage. Explores the theory and practice of informal education and lifelong learning.

NIACE - The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education is a non-governmental organisation working for more and different adult learners.

Social Sciences

Intute - Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation - One of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK.

Social Science - Social Sciences pages of Intute.

Equality & Human Rights Commission - The Equality and Human Rights Commission replaces the three former equality commissions: the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). .

Scottish Parliament - Official site with information on MSPs, history, buildings and current business.

Scottish Government - Scottish Office news and information

Youth Work

Youthlink Scotland - YouthLink Scotland aims to support the development of accessible, high quality youth work services which promote the well-being and development of young people.

Young Scot - Designed specifically with young people in mind, to cater for all tastes and interests.

National Youth Agency - The National Youth Agency supports those involved in young people's personal and social development and works to enable all young people to fulfil their potential within a just society.

Community Work

Community Development Foundation - Leading source of intelligence, guidance and delivery on community development in England and across the UK

Informal Education - A resource for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy.

Scottish Housing Regulator - A government body that regulates registered social landlords and the landlord and homelessness services of local authorities.

General

Scottish Executive - The Scottish Executive is the devolved government for Scotland. It is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport.