Taking risks is a fundamental part of growing up. However, incidents such as the recent sand bank collapse at Tenby, Wales, have made some youth workers question whether certain risks are worth taking.
The incident at Tenby late last month involved 36 young people on a confidence building exercise, where the group linked arms and waded backwards into the water.
As the exercise got under way, disaster struck when the sandbank they were on unexpectedly collapsed. Fortunately, lifeguards on nearby patrol reacted swiftly and there were no fatalities. Bill Fitzgerald from organiser Action Camp has said he will never run the exercise again following the incident.
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