{"id":1254,"date":"2016-06-20T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2016-07-08T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T12:05:36","slug":"supajam-welcomes-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"SupaJam Welcomes Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1269\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1269\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1269 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-1.jpg\" alt=\"supajam 1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-1.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-1-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-1-768x520.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-1-1024x694.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-1-1200x813.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael with co-founders David Court and Nick Stillwell (Credit: Jake Tanner).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael was welcomed to SupaJam in Swanley on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by David Court and Nick Stillwell, SupaJam supports young people aged 16-19 from across the district of Sevenoaks who have fallen out of formal education.\u00a0 Currently supporting over 40 young people, the scheme will expand to support 90 in September.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1272\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1272\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1272 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-6.jpg\" alt=\"supajam 6\" width=\"292\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-6.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-6-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-6-768x506.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-6-1024x675.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/supajam-6-1200x791.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 85vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael meeting students at SupaJam (Credit: Jake Tanner).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students work towards the accredited Music Business Diploma, supported by education in life skills and formal English and Maths qualifications.\u00a0 Seven out of every 10 young people who attend SupaJam move into further education, employment or training when they leave.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0spoke to students and tutors and observed lessons and activities.\u00a0 He was also given the opportunity to try his hand at the music technology used by the students.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: &#8220;SupaJam is doing great things in Swanley.\u00a0 Its remarkable record is turning lives around and helping young people to meet their potential.\u00a0 I look forward to working with David and Nick as they expand their ambition even further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On this day in his constituency, Michael also met representatives from the Electrical Contractors&#8217; Association and local councillors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael was welcomed to SupaJam in Swanley on Friday. Founded by David Court and Nick Stillwell, SupaJam supports young people aged 16-19 from across the district of Sevenoaks who have fallen out of formal education.\u00a0 Currently supporting over 40 young people, the scheme will expand to support 90 in September. Students work towards the accredited &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SupaJam Welcomes Michael&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[31,440,481,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}