Iain Duncan Smith came to visit Wirral on Friday. Iain who is founder of the Centre for Social Justice has spent much of his political career observing and researching into the issues of social justice and injustice and 6 years ago set up the cross party think tank The Centre for Social justice.
The centre has received much acclaim from all parties. It produced the often quoted document ‘Breakdown Britain ‘ and produced ‘Break Through Britain’ and over 600 policies of ways to change injustices within the system, policies now being used by all parties.
On Friday Iain met with a charity he supports through the CSJ in Speke called Five, after which he met with business owners from Wirral and Liverpool and visited the Woodchurch Leisure centre to meet with users and organisers of The Youth Inclusion Project. A project that over the last 12 months has won…..
* A Royal Horticultural Society award for the work our youths were involved in for North West in Bloom
* the Nat Association for Neighbourhood Management ‘Highly Commended’ Best Community Safety Initiative award (Nov 2009)
* the Nat Association for Neighbourhood Management ‘Volunteer of the Year’ award (Jenny Allinson)
* Nomination by Merseyside Police for the national ‘Tackling Drugs Changing Lives’ award
* TSP Directors received the Daily Mail Inspirational Woman of the Year award (June 2009) with the newspaper specifically highlighting the impact of the Youth Project
* the Home Office selecting the project as one of 4 from Merseyside/Greater Manchester/Lancs/Cumbria to be showcased at the regional event in Manchester on 16th March 2010
……and yet is having its funding removed in March.
For that reason Iain is now working closely with me, raising the matter in Parliament, to get it funded.
