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Positive for Youth aims to place teenagers and young people at its heart. There is the accurate expectation teenagers themselves have the responsibility to improve their local communities.(1)____ The government pioneered the idea that young people are capable of accessing the quality of their local services.(2)____ Another government-funding scheme created by the NCB, this time with the British Youth Council and disabled children's charity KIDS, is Young Inspectors, which train some of the most disadvantaged young people from poorer communities to inspect and report on local services.(3)____(4)____ The Young Inspectors scheme, so far, helped change the lives of more than l,400 young people and improved more than 600 local services.(5)____
It is the illegal requirement across public services to listen to the views of service users.(6)____ There is a business case for commercial suppliers to listen to consumers. Teenagers use many public services such as police stations, clinics, clubs and libraries; and also spend as many as S12bn in shopping and travel up to age 19 via the commercial sector.(7)____ They want to see services improved, not just for themselves but for their families and neighbours too. Involving young people as Young Inspectors makes a business sense, and is a means of developing young people's self-esteem, their ability to analyse and communicate, and many other skills that are critical to employers.(8)____At the NCB we are pleased with Positive For Youth' s holistic approach to give young people more opportunities and better support, and we will be eagerly watching to see what the policies take shape.(9)____(10)____
