FNV: ‘Youth worker should not be liable for mistakes’ | Healthy

FNV conducted a poll among 250 youth protectors and talked to more than 400 of them. This happened as a result of a research by agency Significant Public, which makes it clear that a youth protector can have a maximum of eight to nine clients under their care. In practice, the workload appears to be twice as high: about 18 families or 22 children per full-time professional. There are outliers to 31 children and in another case 25 families. One employee, who has been employed for six months and works 32 hours, has to supervise 14 families, but ‘is still building it up’.