Right for the job

Philip Waters
Wednesday, March 12, 2003

The children at your club are the people best qualified to chose new staff playworkers. But how should you involve them in recruitment? Philip Waters has first-hand experience. Sophie turned to the last page of her interview schedule and read the final question, giggling aloud. Looking at the applicant, she asked, 'When did you last fart in public?' This is not a question one would normally expect during an interview for a playworker! But this interview is no ordinary one. Sophie (pictured above), and her fellow interviewing colleagues, Jamie, Max and Rosie, are all children, and the question above - like 20 others - was compiled by children within Poppleton School's Out Club (PopSOC) in York.