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The show's writing team has an average age of 21, and includes several "teenage consultants". Elsley said, "It's all about the writing. [...] We're about letting our audience feel they are not alone. [...] We're always having people miss [writing] meetings because they've got [[A-levels]] or even [[General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSEs]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/may/11/branding-tv-shows|title=Loyalty points|last=Armstrong|first=Stephen|date=11 May 2009|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=6 October 2009|location=London|archive-date=23 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023121557/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/may/11/branding-tv-shows|url-status=live}}</ref>
In January 2011, Jamie Brittain announced a writing competition open to the public to help with the developing and writing of Series 6. According to Brittain, the winner will receive "a four-month placement in the ''Skins'' writers' room, where you'd be invited to attend at least 10 of our top secret meetings, working with [Brittain] and the other ''Skins'' writers," as well as monetary compensation.<ref name="contest">{{cite news|url=http://www.e4.com/fileuploads/e71b6b38cec947504f989c38ff0e61f2/participate.e4|title=Skins writing competition 2011|work=E4|access-date=2 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129025217/http://www.e4.com/fileuploads/e71b6b38cec947504f989c38ff0e61f2/participate.e4|archive-date=29 January 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The winners of the 2011 competition were Sophie Boyce (18) and Joe Hampson (21) who ended up staying on in the writers' room for the full duration of Season 6. The winner of the 2008 competition, Dan Lovett, went on to
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