The Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) hopes to get as many local authority employees as possible to join the LGIU/CSN Social Networking Sites Project Group on Facebook after it carried out research showing 65 per cent of council staff thought social networking was "crucial to encouraging youth participation". But Jasmine Ali, head of the Children's Services Network at the LGIU, said some local authorities did not take social networking sites seriously. "There are councils that don't have...