Young man in local service (6)

'man in local service' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'young' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'young' could be 'boy' (young boy) and 'boy' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'pot' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?