Welsh youth charity Canllaw Online has 17m to spend on hi-tech toys. By next May, it will have set up 82 "digilabs" in youth clubs in disadvantaged areas of Wales, fitted out with PCs, webcams, editing suites and video-conferencing technology (YPN, 20-26 October, p6).
But having got the money, the question of how best to put technology to use in a youth work setting remains.
Children's charity NCH has set up a 1m project, Access to IT, to see how technology can best be used to support youth work. The scheme deals with three groups: physically disabled young people, young people and their parents, and young people leaving care.
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