Five years ago, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets was employing a growing number of unqualified youth workers and was struggling to develop the Transforming Youth Work agenda. There was little training available for youth professionals and universities had stopped supporting many local students, because of a lack of supervisors and assessors within the youth service to facilitate students' work placements.
THE SOLUTION
Tower Hamlets' principal youth officer Steve Sipple, who arrived in the borough in September 2001, says: "Because Ofsted criticised us for the number of unqualified workers, we needed to put some money into the service."
Sipple started by enlisting help from Tower Hamlets College's community development manager Ali Rusbridge, a former youth worker with a passion for the profession.
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