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Residentials: Youth work can be murder

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Education doesn't have to be uninspiring. Max Hope, learning organiser at The Warren in Hull, tells how its murder mystery weekend is giving young people qualifications in cookery, drama and team building

A minibus has just set off to a remote house in Filey, on the northeast coast of England, piled high with sleeping bags, wigs, hats, a blender, food, silver service dining set, coffee machines, a game of Cluedo and loads of young people. This doesn't sound like your typical residential weekend. But, by the end of it, all those taking part will have completed an accredited course and eaten a five-course meal for the first time in their lives. And someone will have been murdered ... sort of.

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Residentials can often be murder for the youth workers involved, but The Warren took it a step further by running a murder mystery weekend.

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