AQW 18306/17-22

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 04/05/2021
Answered On Date: 12/05/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the total average number of hours worked per week by youth workers in each constituency in each of the past five years.

Answer:

My Department is unable to provide this information due to the following reasons:

The fragmented nature of groups that utilise both paid or voluntary youth workers;

The large number of independent groups that would hold this information locally, gathered in a variety of methods and detail;

That volunteer unpaid youth workers are unlikely to hold accurate or indeed any records of hours worked as might be expected of paid employees;

That paid youth workers would have a fixed contract with their employer however may work above those hours but are unlikely to be recorded, and;

The extended length of period the information is sought.