Press reports last week suggested that youth workers are in desperately short supply in Stoke-on-Trent. Yet they are in plentiful abundance in a Norfolk village.
Young people from the Stoke youth forum based in Fegg Hayes are appealing for people as a recruitment crisis threatens to hit activities. Fourteen-year-old Tracy Underwood called on readers of the local paper: "We are advertising for people's help. We want them to come forward to be youth workers and also to help us get some more youth clubs."
Life is different in the Norfolk village of Rackheath. They have never had a youth club there, according to the Norwich Evening News. When Fran Whymark first mentioned starting up a club for bored young people eight months ago, he regarded his project as a one-man band. But he was deluged by adults wanting to help. "More than 20 people have offered to do some voluntary work," he said.
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