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25 young people aged between 10 and 20 came together at Chelsea Football Stadium on 26 January 2008, to think about how they could get involved in influencing the Government to change things for, and end cruelty to children. Esther Rantzen OBE, and Dominic Rodwell (a young person who is heavily involved with the work of the Society) gave inspiring speeches to start the day.
The young people took part in a number of workshop sessions to identify their top priority policy areas, consider different methods of campaigning and influencing, and finally to develop campaign ideas. The top four policy areas identified by the group were: protecting deaf and disabled children from abuse; young people who display harmful sexual behaviour; bullying; and domestic violence. Campaign ideas were developed around all of these areas, and - one group of young people considered how to run a campaign focussing on banning smacking. The ideas from the day will, together with views collected from other young people gathered through separate sessions, feed into the developing young campaigners’ strategy.
Over 100 young people at other events in London and Manchester also got involved by identifying their top priority policy areas. Overall - the top three areas identified by young people are:
- Bullying
- Ending child deaths
- Protection deaf and disabled children from abuse
To find out more about what young people have said, or to find out how young people can get further involved in campaigning email changesomething@nspcc.org.uk.
Violence against children. On 24 October 2007. young people aged between 14 and 18 came together to talk about violence and to ask questions and offer solutions to tackling violence in young people's lives.
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