June 13, 2008

NEWS / AWARDS: Positive Images Award winners are unveiled (UK)

Positive Images Award winners are unveiled

Sugar magazine and BBC Three series The Baby Borrowers are among the nine winners of the 2008 Positive Images Awards, presented at a reception in Westminster yesterday.

The awards, for the media and young people alike, aim to counter negative stereotypes of teenagers and award fair representations of young people.
 
Sugar scooped the award for best national press coverage of young people. The Baby Borrowers, a controversial series in which teenage couples were made to look after children, won the award for best television coverage of young people.
 
Other winners included a film made by young people living in Safestop, a hostel in Manchester, in which they provide an open and honest insight into their lives in residential care.

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