Its candidate is a young, charismatic youth worker called Shafaq Hussain.

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Another MP, Diane Abbott, attacked what she called the "pornification" of youth culture, in which young people were growing up in an environment of sexual bullying and explicit sexual images.

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He said they wanted to speak to residents, shopkeepers, parents, young people, council workers, youth leaders, faith organisations and the so-called "riot wombles", who cleared up after the disorder.

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Ironically, it is the so-called "soft" services like youth clubs and initiatives that help keep young people out of trouble and which nationally the Education Select Committee says have been cut more than any other.

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The charity Barnardo's welcomed the figures but called on the government to widen the scope of Youth Contract training to a broader group of young people.

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