Youth Consultation Peterborough Youth Service 2003 - 2004 Report   How’ve we achieved this? Project development - The Young People’s Office is a platform for the Active Involvement of young people in decision making. Over the next few years we hope to improve the quality of the partnerships that are made from the Young People’s Office; we hope to inspire service providers, locally, regionally and nationally to take up a similar challenge. We want more young people's views to be heard and listened to across the city. Through the Young People’s Office the skills and development of various young people has been enhanced and evolved by developing working relationships between young people and adults. The types of project work the young people have been involved in has expanded towards the peer education model, whereby they have been given the opportunity to share the potential for their own personal and political development. Over the last year, time and development reports have been introduced, with personal evaluation of learning experiences recorded with photographs. The young people are encouraged to write about their experiences here at the Young People’s Office and record their findings of any event. This can be done collectively or as an individual, through meeting and talking about the young peoples’ thoughts directly, or allowing them to write their experiences up on the computer for contribution towards the YCP web site. The Young People’s Office behavioural policy works towards challenging any racial discrimination or prejudice, and the mixing of different ethnic cultures and diversities within the Young People’s Office and the Youth Service promotes equality amongst the young people. The use of ICT, and an informed (active involvement) Youth Worker within the office helps us to combat barriers for young people when it comes to recording information on the computers or using the equipment. The contribution made by the Youth Service to the Electoral Commission and other Government departments designed to support young people in democracy has been beneficial in terms of the "Young Persons agenda for democracy - One year on". We hope to continue our partnership with this project as it has been useful for gaining skills in terms of self confidence and placing an importance on the views of young people. We gained a connection with the Greater Peterborough Partnership, a local strategic partnership which aims to improve Peterborough over the next twenty years, with a personal strategy of including young people directly to gain an outlook from that age range. Through maintaining a relationship with the Greater Peterborough Partnership, some very beneficial work can come out of sharing and exchanging ideas. Young people are the present, and can influence the future of this City, and it is very important that they are given the opportunity to express how things can be improved.

HOME PAGE   Contents Foreword Introduction Past  Present  Future Young People’s Involvement  Local National National Visitors Progress Report How’ve we achieved this? The Process Major Events & Milestones What helped and stopped us? Budget plan  Expenditure Core Funding What have we learned? Personal Development Acknowledgements Agencies - Organisations & Young People Publications Take Forward & Improve? Strengths Weaknesses and Resources Our Recommendations Organisational - Young people - Professional Conclusion