Jamie Rennie has to restrain himself from tearing up copies of Young People Now when they arrive at his Edinburgh office, to stop people reading the job ads.
"We've put a lot of effort into training and ended up with some really brilliant people," he says. "But youth workers are being stolen from the voluntary sector by every other sector offering much more attractive wages.
"The conditions staff are working under are poorer in the voluntary sector, but we just can't compete with such packages," he says. "We want to tear out the back pages of Young People Now for fear that people want to move on."
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