◎ contents 1. youth and youth policy : toward a more 'holistic' approach 2. tackling youth unemployment - the legacy of the past and new beginnings? 3. tackling educational disaffection and disadvantage 4. Vulnerability and the domestic and housing trnsitions : teenage pregnancy and youth homelessness 5. young people 'looked after' in care and leaving care 6. health, illness and health promotion 7. youth crime andn ciminal justice 8. holism and joining up youth policies and practice at a local level 9. hilism and joining up youth policies in national government : prospects and problems for the new agenda