Last week as part of 'Parliament Week' Girlguiding LaSER champions met in the House of Lords to debate the place of politics in the lives of young people. They evidently made an impression as the girls were mentioned in Baroness Uddin's speech on the Un Convention on the Rights of the Child - find the excerpt below!
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Digital Impact — Motion to Take Note
Hansard: HL Deb, 20 November 2014, c594
Baroness Uddin:
... Police forces in England and Wales have recorded children as young as 11 years old reporting that they have been unwilling subjects of revenge porn. Such victims deserve recourse to the law and civil as well as legal remedies. When I was with a group of Metropolitan Police cadets from Southwark as well as Navy cadets and Girl Guides only a couple of days ago, they told me that not enough is being done to caution young people and counter these online acts. I am glad to hear of the progress reported by the noble Baroness, Lady Shields, and that Governments and regulators are to work together to clamp down on the sites that host this pernicious material ...