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Make Space youth review
I missed this, and can't tell by how much, but the interim report of the Make Space Youth Review has been published.
They get nul points for issuing a press release with no date and a report in an unmanipulable pdf format. I would have liked to quote some of it here. In particular, a well-made point about how young people feel isolated and alienated in their own neighbourhoods, with little say over what goes on. The consistent sense of lack of belonging of young people to their own neighbourhood, reported in this review, is deeply worrying.
The review also passes on criticism of 'an overwhelming orientation towards adults - from use of public space and buildings to leisure and recreational services.' Nine key features are proposed for a new government commitment and vision for young people.
The pic is of a made-over Tony Blair.
Posted by Kevin Harris on March 26, 2007 at 02:54 PM | Permalink
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I think the report is only a week or two old if the Lewisham Council press release coincided with the report's delivery.
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NewsAndEvents/News/YoungPeopleChancellor.htm
Like you I would have liked them to have made a PDF we could have cut and pasted from.
My bet is that young and old alike feel alienated in their communities at one time or another. I know that public bodies make greater and greater efforts to engage, consult and communicate, but perhaps it all becomes white noise. And I suspect that much of what they do only ever gets to a few.
Posted by: Andrew Brown at 26 Mar 2007 19:33:51
