Election 2020 - Party Policies - Communities - Youth
25th Jul 20, 5:54am
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- Ensure that all schools and early childhood services have policies, practices, and programmes to create a whole school culture that is inclusive and supports the elimination of prejudice, racism, bullying intimidation, and violence.
- Reintroduce a benefit for unsupported unemployed and sick young people aged 16 and 17
- Make all unemployed students eligible for the unemployment benefit over the summer holiday, irrespective of parental income
- Support the introduction of an optional "gap year" doing a range of environmentally and socially constructive projects, to aid young people in their transition between school and further education and employment.
- Ensure young people are represented or have a voice on local body committees/community boards.
- Ensure the inclusion of comprehensive health, sex and drug education at intermediate and secondary levels in order to educate students about the negative effects of anti-social or "risk-taking" behaviour and to discourage students from abusing legal or illegal substances.
- Expand both youth and adult drug education.
- Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14.
- Ensure young people under 18 are not held in police cells.
- Read more here and here.
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