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Youth minister admits 'mistakes have been made' on London gangs..

Pressure: Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd was challenged to fund in full the work done by Kids Company

The Government minister responsible for youth policy has admitted that “mistakes were made” when it came to tackling gangs and youth violence.
In a remarkably frank interview, Nick Hurd, the Minister for Civil Society who is charged by the Prime Minister with shoring up government support for young people, said: “We have to be honest and say that what we did in the past with respect to tackling gangs was not good enough. We have got to be candid about the failings of the past and create space for new, innovative ways of thinking.”
Speaking exclusively to the Evening Standard at the Cabinet Office on Whitehall, Mr Hurd said the Standard’s initiative to tackle gangs was “enormously important in keeping government’s feet to the fire”.
“This campaign confronts us as decision makers with the uncomfortable fact that we have a significant number of young people in the capital who live very detached, dangerous, horrible lives and that interventions to support them have not succeeded and we need to do better.
"We saw with the London riots what happens when people feel disconnected from society and how it can manifest in raw explosions. We can’t afford to just get on with our lives and think that we sorted it because the issues are still there, the children are still here, and we can’t be at all complacent or simplistic.”
The University College London report published in the Standard which revealed that too many Londoners were experiencing childhoods where murder and violence were considered “normal” was “deeply shocking” and “a massive wake-up call”, he said.
“As a country, we cannot afford to let children grow up thinking that violence is normal. I can’t put it more strongly than that.”
But what exactly is Mr Hurd, only recently given the youth policy brief, proposing to do about it?
“A large part of the solution is to empower successful voluntary organisations like Kids Company because they already have the trust of young people,” he said. “Kids Company is a magnificent example of an enormously compassionate voluntary organisation, heroically led by Camila Batmanghelidjh, that operates in an incredibly difficult space. Their work is complex, multi-dimensional and enormously serious and they regularly perform miracles with the most shattered lives.”

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• Transnational Dubstep,
• Transglobal Breakbeat Dub Science,
• Eastern Beats,
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Justified and Ancient - Secret Archives of the Vatican Podcast 115 by Secret Archives Of The Vatican on Mixcloud

Being and Becoming REAL.

“Real isn't how you are made," 

said the Skin Horse. 

"It's a thing that happens to you. 

When a child loves you for a long, long time, 

not just to play with, 

but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," 

said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 

"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.” 

“Of what use was it to be loved 

and lose one's beauty 

and become Real if it all ended like this? 

And a tear, 

a real tear, 

trickled down his little shabby velvet nose 

and fell to the ground.” 

'Does it happen all at once, 

like being wound up,' 

he asked, 

'or bit by bit?' 

'It doesn't happen all at once,' 

said the Skin Horse. 

'You become. 

It takes a long time. 

That's why it doesn't happen often to people 

who break easily, 

or have sharp edges, 

or who have to be carefully kept. 

Generally, 

by the time you are Real, 

most of your hair has been loved off, 

and your eyes drop out 

and you get loose in the joints 

and very shabby. 

But these things don't matter at all, 

because once you are Real 

you can't be ugly, 

except to people 

who don't understand.” 

― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

John Lennon.

If you are interested in music, these I am downloading NOW.

I have been off the planet for a couple of days and been with BHP's pretty solid - other than a few quiet moments at the end of two days.

So I get to my computer and download all these - mainly 2 hour programmes, two are 3 hours, and off I go with these on my iPhone - into my ears/soul ................ and I commute with them, drive with them, office work with them and .............

.........when Mrs Beautiful is watching TV football/soccer/gardening/baking/food programmes etc.. - I have my Dr Dre feed to my soul.

Missed blogging

must share feelings but out again now - and it's day off!!

The HEART can see ........

"It is only with the heart 

that one can see rightly; 

what is essential 

is invisible to the eye.” 

Antione de Saint-Exupery

SEE Beautiful

BE Beautiful

Make beautiful