A large collection of files relating to policy development mainly dating from 2011-2013. The majority (329 files) relate to Blunkett's campaign to establish a National Volunteer Programme (NVP) and the launch of a new charity, Future for Youth Foundation, established to help tackle the issue of youth unemployment, 2011-2014. Includes pamphlets, press releases and articles promoting the campaign to establish the volunteer programme; agendas and minutes of NVP Roundtable meetings including notes of a meeting with Prince Charles in February 2012; and key documents relating to Future For Youth Foundation including financial documents, letters to stakeholders, minutes and agendas for trustee/management meetings, financial documents and the organisation's business plan. Also contains 2 files relating to proposed reform of the House of Lords, 2011-12; and material relating to the publication of Blunkett's pamphlet In Defence of Politics Revisited (September 2012) which called for a wide-ranging overhaul of the political process to counter the growing trend towards anti politics, technocracy, and political disengagement, including drafts, press releases and newspaper articles.

Includes braille versions of files with formatting removed.