Citizenship Education

Citizenship Education

Connecting young people with democracy

HeadsUp students quiz Gordon Brown and Ed Milliband

Students from St Ivo school quiz Ed MillibandFrom 28 September - 16 October HeadsUp ran its first forum of the academic year, with support from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), looking at the issue of climate change in the run up to the UN Summit in Copenhagen on December 7.

The forum was the most successful one to date with over 1,000 posts and involvement from a number of key decision-makers, including Joan Ruddock MP (Minister of State, DECC) and Caroline Lucas MEP (Leader of the Green Party). Download the HeadsUp Climate Change Report here.

Climate Change Question Time with Gordon Brown,  Ed Milliband and Baroness Kinnock
A group of young people from schools who partcipated in the HeadsUp forum on climate change attended an exclusive Question Time debate in advance of the critical United Nations Copenhagen climate change summit due to start on 7 December. For more information about what was said by Gordon Brown, Ed Milliband and Baroness Kinnock visit the Channel 4 News website for some clips of the event.

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