Introduction
As Youth & Community Work practitioners, the need to understand the term ‘Partnership’ is becoming all too important within our profession in the 21st Century. Within this paper, the historical journey of partnership and role of the community sector will be discussed alongside the concept of Partnership. To do this, the relevant theory surrounding the notion of partnership will be discussed and a number of different examples will be outlined in order to relate these to practice. A further factor of the examples will be to show that partnership is a very broad term, which can describe organisations and agreements between groups and individuals; however they can have a very wide range of goals, aims and objectives.
Conceptualising Partnership