LaSWAP students Samanta Abreu Franco and Katy Corteel
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Three north London sixth formers are celebrating after winning a competition to come up with and run a political campaign.
Katy Corteel, Samanta Abreu Franco and Ellie Lawton-Byrne from LaSWAP Sixth Form Consortium were winners of The Talent Foundry’s Inspire US programme.
They worked on a campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility, raising awareness that at present children as young as 10 years old can be held responsible for their actions and entered into the criminal justice system, making England and Wales outliers in Europe and much of the rest of the world.