YES - Nathan Dennis, managing director, First Class Youth Network
I feel very strongly that this would be a bad move. I wasn't that successful in written work and consequently felt quite excluded. That's why I set up First Class Youth Network - to offer support to excluded young people.
We have 43 youth workers and none of them has a degree. The majority come from inner-city areas - we've got nearly 1,000 young people from the West Midlands on our database and the numbers are growing.
It would be ridiculous if we were prevented from doing our work because we hadn't got the right certificates. I'm not against degrees but I don't like it when the first thing people ask is, "have you got a degree?" The testimonies of the young people we work with are far more important than any degree.
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