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Young People and Communities: Discussion Panel
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Inclusion or alienation?
As part of the Empowerment White Paper and its drive to give more control to communities, The Department of Communities and Local Government recently set up a Youth Advisors panel. Local Government Channel presenter Sam Hughes talks to one of the advisors - Jacqueline Macaulay, and also Stockport MBC’s Barry Seisay who set up Kooth.com - an online counselling and advice service for young people, about how young people see their communities.
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- Congratulations! RT @LewishamCouncil: Results just in. New Young Mayor of Lewisham is Kieran Lang. Dep Young Mayor is Chezney Speed-Skyers.
- Great model for collaboration at #solacesummit in Edinburgh this week. Read the Communique at http://t.co/pK0iBY13
- Watch how the debate unfolded at this week's Solace Summit 2011 on SolaceTV by WebsEdge_Gov http://t.co/MqSc1Vgz
- I uploaded a YouTube video -- John Ransford: the problem with directly elected mayors http://youtu.be/Od_eZd0amRM?a
