Young people persistently say there is nothing to do, and nowhere to go, especially at weekends. Knowing young people are asking for change should encourage staff. Still, as regular weekend work is not part of most employment contracts, it may prove difficult to ask them to give up, say, 44 Friday or Saturday evenings a year.
Start planning and organising this at least a term before you start weekend opening. Advertising for specific full-time weekend workers should help, together with a fair rota system for current workers, who will then only have to cover perhaps one in four weekends.
I understand that the government's workforce strategy announced new training for youth workers. Will this be open to sessional youth workers or full-time local authority staff only?
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