Children and young people filled key roles in the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) for a day, as part of the 11 Million’s Take Over Day.

Young people joined individual Ministers on visits and speech opportunities to see first hand how politics in Britain works.

Children from the UK Youth Parliament and Whizz-Kidz spent the morning of 21 November working with press officers, internal communications staff and speech writers and grabbed their chance to quiz members of the DCSF Board in a Question Time event.

Children from schools in Leeds, Sheffield and Newham joined DCSF officials in their cities on Friday 23 November to work on the Youth Strategy and obesity policies.

Read more about Take Over Day on the DCFS website.

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