The Budget also allocated 2m for a national competition for youth projects funded by the Youth Opportunity Fund. Youth minister Beverley Hughes told Young People Now: "We want to use that money to celebrate the achievements of young people, not least to counter some of the negative images that dominate the media."
Equally encouraging are the signs that the media is slowly beginning to change the way it views young people. In 2004, Young People Now commissioned research company Mori to analyse how young people were portrayed in the press. The results, which were widely reported, showed that 71 per cent of articles written about young people were negative and only 14 per cent were positive.
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