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		<title>Street Based Teams</title>
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MF&#38;RS run a Street Based Team Project. This team engages with Young People in Liverpool signposting them to support/advisory and diversionary activities available within the community. They are looking for new ways to engage and inform the young people about the activities that are put in place, for example diversionary events around and on Bonfire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/03/10/street-based-teams/</link>
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		<title>Schools Parliament Consultation (1/2)</title>
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Yesterday I attended the first of two consultation events with the Schools Parliament. 120 Children and Young People from Primary Schools around Liverpool came to the Town Hall to consult with myself and other organisations about health and safety.
Other delegates were from Liverpool Primary Care Trust, talking about obesity, Liverpool Safeguarding Board, talking mainly about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/03/05/schools-parliament-consultation-12/</link>
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		<title>Putting a face to a name</title>
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This week will see the start of a new initiative which will allow all MF&#38;RS to put a face to the names of our Advocates.
MF&#38;RS employ a wide range of Community Fire Safety Advocates to help achieve our aim of a fire safe community. Whilst our firefighters can carry out the majority of Home Risk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/03/02/putting-a-face-to-a-name/</link>
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		<title>Young Advisors</title>
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Whilst looking for ways to consult with Children and Young People I came across the &#8216;Young Advisors&#8217;. The Young Advisors are aged between 15 and 21; they show community leaders and decision makers how to engage young people in community life, regeneration and renewal.
There are various groups around the country, in the North West there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/02/18/young-advisors/</link>
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		<title>Caught In The Web</title>
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Newsround has put together a special programme called Caught In The Web. It is all about staying safe on the Internet, it tells the story of a girl who gets into trouble after her virtual life in an online chat-room spills into the real world.

There are also real-life case studies with kids who&#8217;ve had bad experiences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/02/09/caught-in-the-web/</link>
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		<title>SID 2010 Survey Results</title>
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The results of the survey indicated that the majority of staff would prefer to have a booklet/leaflet resource.
The top subject that staff wanted to be included was a ‘guide to safeguarding children and young people’, with an ‘overview of social networking’, ‘risks and benefits of the internet’ and ‘security of details’ all close behind. (See [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/02/04/sid-2010-survey-results/</link>
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		<title>Safer Internet Day 2010</title>
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Tuesday 9th February is Safer Internet Day 2010. The main objective of Safer Internet Day is to bring together relevant public and private stakeholders, in as many countries as possible, to raise awareness about safe and responsible use of new technologies especially among children and young people.
With so many of our own colleagues working with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/01/25/safter-internet-day-2010/</link>
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		<title>The Samsung Q1&#8217;s&#8230; so far!</title>
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We have now had the Samsung Q1 Ultra Device for a couple of days and had time to get to grips with them. Several pros and cons have arisen in this time.
Pros
My first impressions are that they are great for activities such as video diaries or capturing a discussion.
The option of either using the front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/01/22/the-samsung-q1s-so-far/</link>
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		<title>Lights, camera, action&#8230;.</title>
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Today saw the first test for the Samsung Q1 Ultra. Using the handheld device myself and the Huyton Prince&#8217;s Trust staff took some footage of the new team that started yesterday.
We were quite impressed at what the device have to offer, having a front and rear camera, however we found that it does not react [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/01/19/lights-camera-action/</link>
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		<title>MF&amp;RS on Facebook</title>
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Following the meeting with Steve Haw from Formby, I met with the Publicity Officer, Communications Officer, New Media Manager and ICT Infrastructure Manager about using Facebook within MF&#38;RS.
Straight away we were informed that allowing every station access to Facebook regularly would not be possible at this time, this is due to the large amount of bandwidth Facebook takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/01/19/mfrs-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Stations</title>
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Yesterday I went to visit Formby Community Fire Station where I was met by Steve Haw and his team.
Like a lot of people Steve has noticed how Facebook has evolved and become extremely popular, not just for personal use, but also professional. He wants to get on board and take advantage of Facebook whilst it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/01/13/social-media-stations/</link>
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		<title>CYP Online Advisory Board</title>
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An idea which I find extremely appealing is the launch of a Children and Young Persons Advisory Board. This board would be made of selected current and past participants on the Youth Engagement Programmes run by MF&#38;RS, such as Prince&#8217;s Trust and Beacon). They would not only moderate and advise on the content of our online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ouropenspace.com/2010/01/07/cyp-online-advisory-board/</link>
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