User-led service design in Local Authorities
A project with Esmee Fairbairn in Lewisham, Knowsley and Bristol
We're working with three local authorities: Lewisham, Knowsley and Bristol, to work out how change happens in local authorities.
- Young people lose out in media coverage, survey finds - 25/06/2007 - Communitycare.co.uk - the websi Less than 1 in 4 stories about young people in the national media are positive, according to a survey out today. 25th June 2007
- Half school 'failures' are white working-class boys, says report | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co White working class kids perform the worst in school. With 25% of state school pupils getting no more than D grade GCSEs it is easy to see why so many are out of work. 22nd June 2007
- Tories to abolish Learning and Skills Council | Further | EducationGuardian.co.uk Tories to abolish Learning and Skills Council | Further | EducationGuardian.co.uk 14th June 2007
- Codesign: Beyond Drawing Lines in the Sand Co-design is solution to land use planning litigation in Michigan 24th May 2007
- Survey shows bullying rife in schools | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk Some 42% of children have been kicked, punched or hit at school, according to the results of a survey carried out by the children's charity the NSPCC, published today. 21st May 2007
- Children face poverty, neglect and demonisation, commissioner warns | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.u England is one of the worst countries in the developed world in which to be a child, the children's commissioner said today. Sir Al Aynsley-Green said he was "angry" that adults frequently "demonise" children while vulnerable young people continue to die through poverty and neglect. And he warned of a "crisis at the heart of our society" in the way children are treated by adults. 18th May 2007
- Brown backs work-related learning for teenagers | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk Gordon Brown has indicated that apprenticeships for teenagers and work-related learning for young people would flourish under his leadership. The chancellor has thrown his weight behind existing government reforms aimed at preventing disaffected teenagers dropping out of school. 18th May 2007
- Commissioner calls for children to take over councils and schools | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk The children's commissioner for England today urged councils, businesses, charities, schools and the government to allow children and young people to take over their organisations for a day. 18th May 2007
- End antisocial behaviour orders for children, says report on youth justice reform - 17/05/2007 - Com Antisocial behaviour orders for children should be abolished as part a shake-up of the youth justice system, a report out today says. The report by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College, London calls for an “urgent” need for a new approach to children in trouble and sets out alternatives including an expansion of restorative justice programmes, where offenders meet victims face-to-face.