Voices blog

Last year, the Youth Act team conducted some research on the negative porrtrayal of young people in the media. Our interest was sparked by what young people had been telling us and that was confirmed by the UN report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We were particularly interested in the impact that [...]

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Yesterday Tony Breslin and I were called to give evidence to the Speaker’s Conference. We were asked specifically about young people’s engagement in politics and what role if any, that citizenship education could play in getting young people interested in politics and choosing politics as a future career.

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The traditional discourse on the alleviation of poverty has always focused on what governments can do to eradicate or minimise the effects of poverty on their population or on populations across the world. Wikepedia estimates that approximately 1/2 of the world’s population suffers from poverty which indicates that it is a huge problem that needs [...]

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This weekend we went away to Lewes with 3 young people who were interested in campaigning on pan-London issues. Aakash, Isatu and Lara were from the NW and SE and had only met once at a consultation for the Government of London with Tessa Jowell.

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Was the chant of students, teachers and community members at the fifth Value Life march in Haringey today. The Youth Act team went to support the work of this group that started in 2003 with Youth Act training. It was early starts all round

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