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Every teenager will have to do 50 hours of community work, Brown says
Kirsty Walker
UK Daily Mail
Monday, April 13, 2009
The scheme, a form of ‘national service’ for teenagers, will ensure they spend a minimum of 50 hours working with charities and vulnerable groups such as the elderly or disabled.
Forming part of Labour’s next election manifesto, it will be woven into plans to make everyone stay in education or training until the age of 18 by 2011.
Mr Brown said: ‘It is my ambition to create a Britain in which there is a clear expectation that all young people will undertake some service to their community, and where community service will become a normal part of growing up in Britain.
‘And, by doing so, the contributions of each of us will build a better society for all of us.’
He added: ‘That would mean young people being expected to contribute at least 50 hours of community service by the time they have reached the age of 19.
‘This will build on the platform provided by citizenship classes as they develop in our schools.
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Heimdall Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 4:29 am ‘Community Service’ is what criminal offenders are sentenced to in the UK at present. We have criminals sentenced to X amount of hours of community service as so called punishment and now that prick, Brown, wants to do the same for all kids! It’s political correctness that has allowed Britain to get into the mess it’s in now, and now Brown wants to use it to teach kids a lesson. Our feral kids are only doing what 40 years of PC has encouraged them to do!
Kirsty Walker
UK Daily Mail
Monday, April 13, 2009
Every teenager will have to do at least 50 hours of community work before the age of 19, Gordon Brown has announced.
The Prime Minister believes youngsters would be less likely to turn to crime if they had a sense of citizenship.The scheme, a form of ‘national service’ for teenagers, will ensure they spend a minimum of 50 hours working with charities and vulnerable groups such as the elderly or disabled.
Forming part of Labour’s next election manifesto, it will be woven into plans to make everyone stay in education or training until the age of 18 by 2011.
Mr Brown said: ‘It is my ambition to create a Britain in which there is a clear expectation that all young people will undertake some service to their community, and where community service will become a normal part of growing up in Britain.
‘And, by doing so, the contributions of each of us will build a better society for all of us.’
He added: ‘That would mean young people being expected to contribute at least 50 hours of community service by the time they have reached the age of 19.
‘This will build on the platform provided by citizenship classes as they develop in our schools.
EDITED - saw this comment
Heimdall Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 4:29 am ‘Community Service’ is what criminal offenders are sentenced to in the UK at present. We have criminals sentenced to X amount of hours of community service as so called punishment and now that prick, Brown, wants to do the same for all kids! It’s political correctness that has allowed Britain to get into the mess it’s in now, and now Brown wants to use it to teach kids a lesson. Our feral kids are only doing what 40 years of PC has encouraged them to do!
