Clearly there is a problem of recruitment and retention in the sector.
Some people in the field point to a drain of workers into neighbouring professions such as social work or teaching, citing pay, training and poor employment structures as contributory factors.
Dee Hammerson, head of youth services at Doncaster Borough Council, says her department began experiencing a problem with recruitment a few years ago, at about the time that Connexions was created.
Different options
"People were encouraged then to try a different kind of youth work," she says. "I remember going to a sort of showcase event where various agencies had stalls, and I kept saying hello to my ex-youth workers. We'd trained them, and they'd got jobs elsewhere."
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