The season for planning summer residentials is upon us once more. The destination is agreed, risk assessments are out and the pile of paperwork to complete before the first holdall is loaded onto the minibus stands high.
All the youth workers I have met have a story of "the" residential that really changed them - for better or worse.
It is rather like a rite of passage or initiation into youth work. Tears, traumas, sleepless nights and long days - the best advice I can give a novice is to make friends with colleagues early on.
After all, these are going to be the people that you will be talking to at three o'clock in the morning, and possibly again at five as the long night stretches into dawn.
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