According to the youth club charity Ambition, volunteer youth workers require a significantly better level of training, to ensure that high-quality services remain available to young people.
Speaking to delegates at the Confederation of Heads of Young People’s Services convention in Sheffield, Kate Chester, director of operations at Ambition, said the financial climate had resulted in a decrease in qualified youth workers and an increase in volunteers helping to maintain clubs.
“Ambition is looking to provide more support and training for them where they are taking the place of qualified youth workers,” she said.
Efforts to train volunteers form part of Ambition’s plans between now and 2015. It wants to improve the quality of community youth clubs, to make sure that they “are the best they can be”, through providing the tools, support and information they need.
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