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The Inner City Challenge is a 4-day placement programme for MPs.

MPs are invited to come face-to-face with Breakdown Britain: the combined results of broken families, poor schools, addiction and debt and a benefit system that keeps people trapped in poverty.

Britain's most innovative poverty fighting organisations and voluntary groups tackle each of these pathways to poverty with high success rates.

Placements

Patrick Mercer
March 2009

Patrick Mercer worked for 'Save The Family' working with some of Britain's most damaged families.

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September 2008 
 
Andrew Selous worked for homeless charity the Watford New Hope Trust.
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September 2008  
 
David Burrowes worked behind the scenes of mentoring charity Chance UK.
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28 July - 1 August 2008  
 
Stephen Hammond MP went rock climbing with young people not in education, employment or training, with Fairbridge, in Birmingham.
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12-15 February 2008  
 
Philip Davies spent his week with the homeless of Leeds city centre at St George's Crypt. 
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Alistair Burt MP
4-7 June 2007

Alistair Burt worked with Eden Openshaw a community regeneration project in Salford, Manchester.
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John Penrose MP
March 2007

John Penrose volunteered at Emmaus Bristol working with homeless men and women.

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5-8 March 2007 
 
Oliver Letwin spent four days with Believe, a charity helping young men to stop reoffending.
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Oliver Heald MP
5-9 February 2007
 
Oliver Heald's served at a 24-hour direct access hostel for homeless men in Sheffield, run by St Anne's Community Service. 
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Justine Greening MP
5-9 February 

Justine Greening spent a residential challenge with Amber, helping unemployed and homeless young people.

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James Brokenshire MP
5-9 February 2007

James Brokenshire travelled to Plymouth to work with male adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse at Twelves Company.
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Ed Vaizey MP
14 August 2006

Ed Vaizey worked at a nightshelter for the homeless at The King's Arms Project in Bedford.
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Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP
17 July 2006
 
Iain Duncan Smith worked at the Lighthouse Group in Bradford, working with children at risk of exclusion or excluded from school.
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Nick Hurd MP
17 July 2006
 
Nick Hurd worked with community regeneration project the Living Well Trust on the Raffles Estate in Carlisle. 
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Douglas Carswell MP
17 July 2006
 
Douglas Carswell worked with Thames Reach and their house for 42 elderly former rough sleepers.
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Shailesh Vara MP
31 July 2006
 
Shailesh spent four days at Kids Company, London, working with 6,000 profoundly disadvantaged children a year.
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