“We need to put young people back at the heart of decisions that affect them.” Secretary of State @lisanandy announces plans for a new National Youth Strategy, for young people, by young people Find out more: gov.uk/government/news/new-n…

Great to see so many youth workers at #LeedsBeckett for the annual #YouthWork Conference last week! #ChooseYouthWork @Barcaleedsyp @WorkLbu

The second round of three minute thesis talks, thanks to Tanzilla, Alex, Rachel and Petra!

Lady with wavy hair, "I'm sat here and I'm baffled that you (Andrew Mitchell) can talk about serious youth violence as if your party is not directly responsible for services being stripped to their bones" "Grassroots organisations are on their knees. They're supporting vulnerable young people" "Until you acknowledge that we need proper intervention into early intervention services, police need a working definition of child criminal exploitation, young people need to be treated as the victims that they are; not further criminalised, further harmed and pushed to the edges of society" "At best your party has been incompetent. At worst you have been negligent" "You are directly responsible for the increase in youth violence, loss of life and liberty, that we are seeing in our communities"