The comments reported made my position out to be more simplistic than it is. The fact is that I do support a licence to practise but one much more sensitive and attuned to the whole youth workforce.
In my licensing scheme, the licence would be granted at different levels; so for the volunteer worker a licence would be given with a passportable Criminal Records Bureau check and an induction, properly delivered by the host organisation with a set of commonly agreed elements.
For youth support workers, the scheme would include that plus level II, and for qualified youth workers a professional higher level qualification.
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