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The workshop was absoulutley FAB!!! WELL......I Was Really Surprised At The Turnout In Our Workshop We Played A Really Fun Game @ The Begining Called Around The World Created By ME!!!! I Appreciate and respect All The People Who Contributed To Our Workshop, I Can Say We As Young People Care, Especially Me Thank You All..... And I Would Love A NAtional YOUTH BOARD NOW ♥ ♥ **LOTZA** ♥ ♥ Therryi ♥ ♥

We caught up with Tom Wylie after his keynote earlier and here's what he said:

His key points:

• We need an architecture or arrangements that will better engage young people in decision making at the local level.
• We need youthwork as a way of intervening with the young.
• Youthwork is a set of proccesses, a set of activites, as set of relationships which are about young peoples personal and social development
• That arrangement, that youthwork, is available only in a patch fashion across the country - and we need something that makes it more systematic, sets higher standards, and provides sufficient and sustainble resources.
• To involve young people in decision making the government should build on the Youth Opportunity Fund, should encourage every local authority to have some form of youth forum, and should use the Hear by Right standards as the basis on which to judge whether or not local authorities are being successful.

Tick box which one do i fit into, don't i fit in all of them. I'm boxed in all your boxes and can't see the way out.
You've labled me so much i can't even define myself. what would your form look like without enthnicty, sexuality, educational staus. Would your form just leave me as a indvidual or would i still be boxed in by your superfical reality!!!!!!

We are all flesh and blood in the end. it's all about where you want to go and not where you have been.

Athe first session this morning there was a presentation and debate about the the New Children and the inclusion of "The Youth Service" as part of the provision. the concerns were about the identity of youth workers as a profession and young people as children.

I must say i have symphaty with the view that the youth service needs its own identity. The reseon being the youth services is about young people learning, personal development and education. The profesional culture now adays give more priority to preventional and protectional services that positive and active younth activities. I do not think the public accepth that a LEA education services being lead by a professional social worker. Grouping teanagers with under 5 and social workers running education and youth service gives out the wrong signals parents and young adults, some of whom are parents.themselves.

i think we need the be more positive about young people and this must be reflected in the structure and culture of management.

Cllr. Aubyn Graham

So the first session consisted of very very confusing conversation. Long words and endless powerpoints lead to me being cmpletely confused and distracted by the most dynamic blue ball point pen.

One of my many souvenirs....But the best obviously.

The second session was amazingly inspiring. I mean who would have thought?! a traveling "Rolling Base". Mental.

Anyway I was very inspired and are now thinking about doing seomthing in my local area! Terrible how I am inspired by a bus.

The food was good. Reeeaaallly good. The variety was major.

We met this cool man. He was cool. I liked the way that he spoke to us and made jokes about "pimp my ride" - Terrible how the only connection older people can think of to relate with us was a MTV Show. Brilliant :D

And now I'm blogging. Again. Mental. Looking forward to the media thing. It sounds good :)

Until Another Blog!!
Floyllumn.

Blue eyes, we are living the lives, independent rights,
its how we thrive on the future of our lives.

Volunteering aint what it seems, events will happen which will make your eyes gleem, joining in different events, it always make honest sense, experience, knowledge, educational, serious. different words to show the experience, young people always say how volunteering wastes their day, asking them no i dont feel that way, to joining youth aid.

All of a sudden they join us, certificates equal plus, give you good times, rought times, enjoyable and nice times,
see different people, helping different people, caring for other people, will always equal, for getting somewhere in life.

so be apart of youth aid situated at catford broadway,
youl make MARIA'S day, as she will say "OH MY GOD" were thankful that we have alot, we can fill the slot with young people.

colaborations to the staff from the bottom of our hearts, you helped us get this far, MARIA, MARCUS, MOHAMMED,CAROLINE AND KATE, you opened up a new gate to our lives.

THANK YOU
YOUTH AID VOLUNTEERS (V. PROJECT)
(CERRI, SHAUNA, THERRYI, ODEAN, AND TROY).

A survey released today has shown just how much coverage of young people in the media is negative. I caught up with two of the NYA Team at the Youth Summit to get their views:

Earlier on today I also got chance to talk to Leigh from Media Box to ask her to explain what media box is all about and how it can help challenge negative media portrayal of young people.

Check out the full press release

YOUNG PEOPLE 'SEEN BUT NOT HEARD' IN NATIONAL MEDIA

9 out of 10 stories on young people don't report what they say

Less than 1 in 4 stories are positive about young people

A news survey for Young People Now magazine by TNS Media Intelligence
shows only 22.7% of national media coverage about young people is
positive/favourable. The survey findings are launched today at the start
of the national Youth Summit in London.

Broadcast media in particular concentrated on negative perceptions of
young people, with an astonishing 87.5% of broadcast clips unfavourable
towards young people.

While adults were quoted in 38% of stories about young people, a young
person's quotation appeared in only 11% of the coverage. If the views of
young people were heard at all, they were often heard only after adult
expects on the matter in hand had been quoted.

The survey covered all daily and Sunday nationals, all major and most of
the smaller broadcast news outlets, monitoring coverage for one week in
May 2007.

*  Broadcast coverage tended to be of short duration and focused on the
more headline-grabbing incidents of violence and crime.

*  The most popular Broadsheet newspaper topic was education, accounting
for 38% of coverage about young people.

*  Tabloid newspapers included both violent crime and education, but they
were also more concerned than other media about the sexualisation of
childhood that accounted for 16% of the tabloids' coverage.

While in any one week particular stories might dominate a news-agenda,
there is little to suggest that the negative coverage of young people is
atypical. The range of topics covered by the national media was
predominantly negative, with an emphasis on problem behaviour and young
people the instigators or victims. The survey also follows previous
studies for Young People Now. Initial research in 2004 showed that 3 out
of 4 stories about young people were negative.

Ravi Chandiramani, editor of Young People Now, said: "Over the last
three years, there has been an increase in positive coverage of young
people. However, as our survey shows there is a great deal more to do,
in particular for broadcast news media. All too often young people are
seen but not heard. This not only reinforces negative images and
stereotypes of young people, but risks further alienating young people
in communities."

Philip Lynch, director of evaluation at TNS Media Intelligence
commented: "Young people were closely associated with negative issues
such as crime, violence and antisocial behaviour. Other issues such as
education, the sexualisation of childhood and gangs often carried an
element of distress that adults are failing young people."

Young People Now will hand out its 2007 Positive Images Awards at The
Youth Summit, in association with The National Youth Agency, as part of
its campaign to improve the media portrayal of young people.

- Ends -

For further details or media interviews with Young People Now, TNS Media
Intelligence and The National Youth Agency, contact:

*  Jonathan Hopkins (tel: 01235 559556)

Notes to editors:-

The Youth Summit: is a two-day event 25/26 June that brings together
Government Ministers, senior officials, leading policy makers, service
providers and a panel of 100 young people from across England, forging
dynamic links between young people, communities and government.
www.youthsummit.co.uk 

Positive Images: a full list of the 2007 award winners will be available
from Young People Now on Monday 25th June. The awards will be presented
at 5.30pm, at The Youth Summit, New Connaught Rooms, London WC2. Young
People Now launched Positive Images in October 2004 as a campaign:

*  to improve the portrayal of young people in the media
*  to encourage media to look for positive angles when reporting stories
about young people
*  to incentivise youth groups and young people to be proactive in
contacting the media for local councils to celebrate young people as
part of a long-term strategy.

Young People Now: is the only weekly title for those who work with young
people aged 11-25. It was launched in 1989 by The National Youth Agency
and has been published by Haymarket Media Group since January 2003.
Haymarket is the UK's largest privately owned magazine publisher, and
Haymarket titles are now published in over 30 countries in more than 100
editions.

The National Youth Agency: supports those involved in young people's
personal and social development and works to enable all young people to
fulfil their potential within a just society. www.nya.org.uk


TNS Media Intelligence: TNS Media Intelligence UK has been at the
forefront of the media monitoring industry since its inception fifty
years ago and is a recognised industry expert in audiovisual tracking.
In January 2007 it merged with Presswatch, founded in 1996 and well
known as a high-quality information service provider and independent
reputation analyst in the UK.

Positive Images Survey 2007: TNS Media Intelligence monitored the tone
of coverage of young people during the week of 19-25 May 2007. In total,
304 items of coverage were recorded, of which 104 were broadcast, 90
broadsheet and 110 tabloid.

Ello, everybody how you are you i'm havin a really good time today, the hotel is really nice, wish u we're all here, the conference is much better then the "Youth Participation Conference" last week... Lets just say that 24% of the people present today are YOUNG PEOPLE a much better turn out than birmingham, well i will write another blog later.... AS the day has just begun and i'm still tired....

*Lotsa*

♥ Therryi ♥

Young people from Corby will soon be running a session at the Youth Summit later on this afternoon.

They're going to be challenging their audience to think about issues such as Dispersal Orders, Anti-Social Behaviour, CCTV and more...

I spoke to them a few minutes ago to get a bit of a preview...