but basically i think most courses now, not sure there's actually a legal requirement, i don't think it is, but most of them want a at least a year's sort of full time  experience in erm, you know,d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who can't cope for one reason or another, and how  er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on, and how