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- not for some years judging by the current dreary options to choose from, but you can live in hope :-)
- Totally agree that the discussion about engagement should be about getting politicians to engage with the people they represent not the other way round - I think falling numbers of voters are going...
- ah well if you're making a case for voting at much younger ages too ie. we're all citizens I'm interested in that albeit obviously all sorts of implications but I can agree that the...
- I wouldn't say that it is a ground up campaign (from young people) but I don't think that makes the case for it invalid. I also don't think voting reduces young people's childhood....
- it doesn't make sense, but then neither does it if 16 year olds can't have other adult responsibilities too, so do you also lower the age at which people can buy cigarettes, buy alcohol, be...
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I finally got round to submitting our response to the DCSF Consultation on ‘Youth Sector Support‘ and one of the questions raised an issue I’d considered a while back.
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1 year ago
So often services for young people fail to recognise young people as their stakeholders and (for lack of better non-market terminology that gets at the point) their customers. Instead, they end up focussing on their accountability to funders, parents, local authority etc.
Those accountabilities are relevant - but its effectively being accountable to young people that will really lead to service improvement.
We started to explore some of the issues of how young people hold services to account when we ran consultations on the local offer last year - and it's a line of exploration that definitely needs to be taken further....