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Youth Consultation
Peterborough Youth Service
2003 - 2004 Report
Things that helped us along and
things that stopped us?
There have been many things that have added or taken away from our progress at
the Young People’s Office. There have been many beneficial events, the visit to
Downing Street, the ODPM conference, the various projects we've participated in
like the Healthy Eating week initiative or the Greater Peterborough Partnership
project. Maintaining relationships with people in other aspects of the city
means; that the young people begin to flourish in connections with others, that
people begin to ask us for our advice and other young people use the office as a
facility. Getting involved in a project like the Greater Peterborough
Partnership initiative is enormous progress, when compared to when the Young
People’s Office started out, with less accessibility to a space in which the
young people could work.
The various projects we've encountered over the last year have gradually shown
us that young people are beginning to be taken more seriously. In the future, we
hope that the views of young people are respected and taken into consideration
as much as the views of any other citizens, as problems are usually generated
through a lack of communication with the people that they involve. Young people
are not just trouble-makers, and one of the prime objectives of the Young
People’s Office is to get this stereotype reduced. When young people feel like
they are being involved and listened to, often the reasons that this stereotype
existed in the first place are made redundant.
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Introduction
Young
People’s Involvement
Budget plan
Acknowledgements
Take
Forward & Improve?
Our
Recommendations
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