Museum volunteer forced to work for free for Poundland instead.

Conscripted ‘volunteering’ is fast becoming a weapon used to reduce the apparent numbers of people without any waged employment. Whatever we feel about this as a long-term solution to getting the ‘economy working’, the implementation of the policy at local levels seems  bizarrely blockheaded. Cait Reilly, a keen archaeology graduate, was volunteering in her local museum. […]