Milan and his hobbies
Milan's hobbies are bird watching and visiting different places of interest. Milan needs support to get out and about to all the places he wants to visit.
How politics affects you
Milan's story
Milan decided he wanted to employ his own staff to help him do the things he wants in his life including his hobbies.
Milan found out about direct payment and managed to get one from social services. This means that Milan now chooses his own staff to support him.
How does politics affect this?
People who need support in their lives told politicians that they wanted more control of the type of support they get.
Politicians listened to this and decided that rather than give money to social services to provide support for people, they could ask social services to give money to people as a direct payment. People could then use this money to sort out their own support.
Politics
Politics is the name for the way groups of people make decisions about running the country. The people who help make these decisions are called politicians.
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Politician
Politicians are ordinary people who decide they want to help run the country. They become politicians by winning an election.
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Politician
Politicians are ordinary people who decide they want to help run the country. They become politicians by winning an election.
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Social services
A group of people who work for the council and provide services for those who need support.
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Milan saws that lots of volunteers worked there. He decided to apply to be a volunteer as well.
After having a CRB check done, and doing some training, he began work as an official volunteer.
How does politics affect this?
Politicians decided children, and other vulnerable people, needed to be protected. They made a law that says if you are going to be working with children, including voluntary work, you need to have a CRB (or Criminal Records Check) done.
This is carried out by the police and tells your employer whether or not you have been in trouble before. They can then decide if they think it is safe for you to work with children.
Politics
Politics is the name for the way groups of people make decisions about running the country. The people who help make these decisions are called politicians.
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Politician
Politicians are ordinary people who decide they want to help run the country. They become politicians by winning an election.
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Milan found out that we all throw away a lot of rubbish. Milan learned that it would help the environment if everyone recycled their rubbish.
Milan decided he wants to recycle as much as he can. He went to a recycling centre to find out what he can recycle.
How does politics affect this?
The Government can make sure that we all have access to information about recycling. They can tell local politicians what they should do about recycling in their areas. They can say how much household rubbish should be recycled in each area.
Local politicians can decide how many recycling centres there are and what things can be recycled there.
Government
The name for the group of people who are elected to help run the country.
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Local politician
Local politicians are ordinary people who are elected to help make decisions about local services. There are different types of local politician and they are called councillors.
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Local politician
Local politicians are ordinary people who are elected to help make decisions about local services. There are different types of local politician and they are called councillors.
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He learned that it would help the environment if we used less energy and found ways of getting energy that are better for the environment.
Milan decided that he would make sure he used less energy at home. He visited a wind farm to find out more about other ways we can get energy.
How does politics affect this?
The Government can make agreements with other countries to look at the way energy is provided to every house and business. They can decide to find ways of providing energy to people that might be better for the environment.
They can ask people to use less energy and they can ask companies who make household things like fridges and cookers to try and make these things use less energy when they are switched on.
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Government
The name for the group of people who are elected to help run the country.
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A group of people who work for the council and provide services for those who need support.
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