Liz Clarkson

The BwD Youth MP Zainab Shah attended PMQ’s earlier today in the House of Commons. Zainab will be representing young people in BwD on Friday at the annual UK Youth Parliament sitting #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #UKYP2025 #Youthvoice #BwD #YPS

FANTASTIC... passionate and dedicated young people and youth workers #YPS

What a fantastic celebration of Youth Work Week here in Blackburn with Darwen, celebrating equality, diversity and inclusion every day in our youth organisations 🙌#YWW2024 @natyouthagency @ImranAkujii @blackburndarwen youtu.be/4hdHSAslv2c?si…

Young people on the TYS project have had a great afternoon walking up Darwen Tower today, as part of the YPS Summer HAF holiday scheme #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #HAF2024 #YPS

Young people on the TYS programme have had a great day in sunny Lytham today on the beach #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #HAF2024 #YPS

Young people on the TYS project have had a great day at Wensley Fold as part of the YPS summer HAF holiday scheme #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #HAF2024 #YPS

A great day with children and young people from the Voice and SEND Inclusion groups at Thornton Hall Farm as part of the YPS summer HAF holiday scheme #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #HAF2024 #YPS

Youth MP Zainab Shah attended the Executive board this evening to provide updates from the Youth Forum. Zainab gave a heartfelt speech about the recent tragic events & condemned the violence by the far right, Zainab spoke about the strong integrated community in BwD #Youthvoice

Young People at KND (ASD) youth club have been using the NYA Speak Out Toolkit tonight, the young people participated in an activity to understand key definitions linked with extremism. #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #YPS #NYA

Another excellent post from ‘Special Needs Jungle’ - a fantastic resource for any parent of a child with special educational needs & disabilities in the UK @SpcialNdsJungle @sencochat @NNPCF @jeanfitzpatrick

Well done Roisa and Franklin 🙌🏽

Care experienced young people led their second Total Respect training of the week with the staff team at YPS at Kaleidoscope youth centre today. An impactful training to understand the challenges children in our care experience. #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #TotalRespect #YPS

Trying to condense 4 years of @MuhammedBapuMYP being both deputy and Youth MP for BwD is proving problematic for a short stand down video 🙈

Young people from the Voice group and KND had a great time at their Christmas parties yesterday at both Kaleidoscope and Brewsters. #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #Voice #KND #YPS

The BwD Youth Forum met with Executive Board member for Public Health & Leisure, Cllr Damian Talbot and Director for Environment and Leisure, Martin Eden this evening to discuss their proposal to reductions in student memberships prices. #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #YPS #Youthvoice

Good luck to @MuhammedBapuMYP who is representing Blackburn with Darwen in the UK Youth Parliament annual sitting today in the House of Commons today #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #Youthvoice #UKYP23

@Kate_HollernMP @Caabu 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I'm proud to have joined colleagues from both Houses of Parliament in signing this important letter from @Caabu, calling on the government to support an immediate ceasefire

The social cost of youth work cuts report highlights the link between reduced funding for youth provision and an increase in crime rates for young people. Learn more: nya.org.uk/youth-centre-c… #YouthJustice #YWW23 #YouthWorkWeek

24% of young respondents to a recent survey by the youth charity @onsideyz report that they do not have a safe space to go to where they feel they belong – a side effect of the 77% cut to youth services over more than a decade. Learn more nya.org.uk/youth-centre-c… #YWW23

It’s #YouthWorkWeek today at YPS we celebrate youthwork in any place and space, our fantastic youth workers regularly support young people’s development in our bushcraft skills sessions #YWW23 #Enjoy #Learn #Achieve #TYS #YPS