Beverley Hughes told Children & Young People Now she is keen to see if funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families' comprehensive spending review allocation can be used to continue the work of Mediabox.
After a visit last week to a Mediabox project run by the Connections Communications Centre in Hammersmith, west London, she said: "These particular projects work with disengaged young people for long periods of time, to take them through progressing their skills. The key thing is that because young people make a film, it is theirs. They get qualifications on the way, but they also get something that they make as evidence of what they have been doing."
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