On the 9th of November 2011 Sheffield Futures was visited by the Children & Young Peoples Minister Tim Loughton. He came to hear about Young Peoples Participation & Involvement in Sheffield and to talk about Sheffield not rioting. We delivered a presentation about the Participation and Involvement teams (Sheffield Young Advisors, Sheffield Youth Council, Sheffield UK Youth Parliament & Sheffield Community Assembly Youth Forums) and then had a discussion with him and other senior members of Sheffield Futures, South Yorkshire Police and Sheffield City Council about why Sheffield didn't riot and our roles in helping prevent it from happening in our city.

Tim Loughton said: "The reason I came here was that Nick Clegg told me about what happened here…I think we have more of a lesson to learn from activities here. Because it was done by the young people it is really positive. Lessons can really be learned from the work you have done here".

Sheffield YA Emma Hazlehurst said: "In Sheffield communication has been [and continues to be] the key to this positive work".

In relation to the discussions around the prevention work done by young people in Sheffield, the Minister said: "We're currently working on a document called Positive 4 Youth and we will ensure that a big section on [the activities undertaken by] Sheffield will be in it"