NYA, Barnardo's Newcastle

The NYA media team has marked Youth Work Week by handing over the writing and production our weekly spread in Children and Young People Now. Kenen Waters,15 and Priya Chauan,17, spent the day selecting themes, writing and sub-editing articles, selecting photographs, laying out pages and proofreading as well as uploading new content to The NYA website. A third young person, Fatima Manjra, shadowed The NYA's chief executive Fiona Blacke for the day and has interviewed here for a future edition of CYPN.   

Meanwhile details of other events continue to come through. In Newcastle on 7 November Barnardo's are holding an event at Westgate Sports Centre that will see some 100 socially-excluded young people have a chance to meet and talk with local MPs, councillors and other key decison makers.  The whole event has been designed, developed and will be delivered by a group of young dads from Barnardo's Newcastle Independence Network, supported by Barnardo's Regional Do Politix team with sponsorship from The Electoral Commission. The aim of the event is help young people who are currently out of education, employment or training to be aware of how politics affects their lives, to help them identify the issues important to them and to raise their confidence in communicating with politcians and others in positions of power.