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Academies Update

Posted in academies, community, youth, youth provision, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve posted before about the development of Academies and thought I would give an update on how things are progressing. The youth council from the area concerned wrote to Cabinet Members, District and Parish Councillors, youth officers and also their local MP, Tim Loughton to organise a meeting to express their concerns about the lack [...]

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Some interesting links (or so I think)

Posted in Blogs, Social Media, participation, tagged , , , , , , , on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

On a couple of blogs I’ve seen a round up of sites and whilst I’ve been doodling around the net I’ve bumped into a few that I thought I would share in a quick hit whilst they are in my head (and high up on my delicious site!)
I found this through Flickr put together [...]

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Communities in control, real people, real power!

Posted in Youth - General, community, young people, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

For those of you who haven’t picked it up yet Hazel Blears is blogging this week here on Communities and Local Government.  An interesting exercise where she is looking for information and feedback on the Communities in Control, real people, real power (white paper).

I’ve been very interested to see the white paper and in particular to note what has been [...]

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Games for Social Issues

Posted in Social Media, Youth - General, youth, tagged , , on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Recently I’ve somehow come across and signed up to a social issues games list serve through Games for Change . I like the idea of various games that tackle social issues and wonder how we might use these on our youth work? For instance there is this game Budget Hero which  helps players to learn about the US Federal Budget [...]

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