Press Release

Shadow Minister for Justice on work experience with children’s charity

17 September 2008

David Burrowes MP, the Shadow Minister for Justice, is spending a week working with children’s mentoring charity Chance UK this week, 17-23 September.

During the week, he will be responding to applications from volunteers who would like to mentor children in Islington and Hackney, help assess the behavioural difficulties faced by the children Chance UK works with, and contact potential mentors to ensure they are still attending training.

The project is designed to give MPs the chance to work for a voluntary sector organisation and find out more about the challenges they face.

David said, “I am really looking forward to the opportunity to spending time seeing how Chance UK help improve the lives of young people through intervention at an early age.”

“As a Shadow Justice Minister and as an MP from a Borough where youth crime is of great concern, I hope to learn some lessons which could be applied in Enfield and nationally.”

Chance UK Chief Executive Gracia McGrath said, “We are very much looking forward to having David as part of our staff team for the week. He will get some great hands-on experience of the work we do in working with children at risk of developing criminal or anti-social behaviour.”