In Bath and North East Somerset, we're working to make sure this type of headline doesn't occur. To do this there must be no hidden agenda in the provision of play services for young people. Children and young people don't like to know they have "been referred" from an organisation because of antisocial behaviour or hanging around shops talking to their friends.
As part of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child, play rangers in our area are trying to provide a level of youth work without the constraints of an informal learning agenda. There are lots of teenage girls that find these workers reassuring to have around.
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