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Article: Youth Matters: Voices of the next generation The importance of listening to young people is now being officially recognised.
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 14, 2002
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About one in five of the population of England is under 19. That
is more than 12 million young people - some old enough to get
married, start jobs, vote and join the army, but most of whom are
children. They are the next generation of adults. Are they taken
seriously?
Two years ago, in a speech on a housing estate in south London,
the Prime Minister Tony Blair outlined the Government's programme for
young people. He described a resource that was constantly renewing
itself, at a vulnerable stage and in critical need of attention, in
an age when pressures on youngsters have never been greater.
The result is the Children and Young People's Unit (CYPU), a