Shadow Cabinet Inner City Challenge
Members of the Shadow Cabinet Oliver Letwin and Oliver Heald and other Conservative MPs take up their Inner City Challenge next month, serving in poverty-fighting project placements.Inner City Challenge placements provide MPs with a 4 day up-front immersion into some of Britain's toughtest social problems, by working with the people who have found their solutions.
Oliver Letwin is spending four days working with a charity mentoring prison inmates and young offenders in the hope of offering them a second chance in lifem while Oliver Heald is serving in a Sheffield project.
Other projects include rescuing young people from a false-start in life where long term unemployment and drug habits have derailed their futures (Justine Greening, Putney); and a group working with male adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (James Brokenshire, Hornchurch).
The Conservative MPs have been keen to take up placements to get first hand experience of communities finding their own, effective solutions to deep seated problems.
The Centre for Social Justice is grateful to each project for devising a demanding timetable for their volunteer.
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Picture above: Martine Cotter, Twelves Company, Plymouth.
