David Blunkett: introducing citizenship education was the easy bit. We need to do more to encourage schools to support youth participation

The previous Labour government added Citizenship to the National Curriculum in England in 2002. Last week on Democrat Audit David Kerr discussed how its prominence has fallen in more recent and called for more robust monitoring of provision. In this post David Blunkett MP, Education Secretary under Labour, discusses the importance of Citizenship and how its teaching can be strengthened. This post is part of our series on youth participation in politics.