Youth Consultation Peterborough Youth Service 2003 - 2004 Report   Young people’s involvement? Local Involvement Locally over the last year Youth Consultation has been involved in several major projects. One that was quite significant was the Peterborough Learners’ Forum which was created in partnership with Peterborough’s Learning Partnership. It was a huge project which involved young people from the office peer researching into education. This involved us going out onto the streets of Peterborough and asking four hundred young people to answer a questionnaire on their experiences of education. We have developed a web site for Cambridgeshire Constabulary on crime that affects young people. This site is called “give us your time” and helps young people in and around Peterborough to be aware of the ways young people can be sucked into crime. Young people from the office have also been involved in the NHS Health Investment Plan. We developed a scrap book on how young people would like to see the new hospital being built in Peterborough. We then gave a presentation in one of the meetings to show what we had found out. UKYP is a youth parliament. Young people can put themselves forward to be elected to UKYP as long as they have some relevant ideas that they want to talk about. Last year we held an election for Peterborough’s member of youth parliament. It was a great success and many people turned out to vote. Mohammed Jangher, who was elected, has been involved with going to the national meetings and representing Peterborough in the Youth Parliament. With Connexions we have been involved in going to interviews and sitting on the young persons’ panel. We have been involved in asking questions, writing summaries of each person interviewed and also choosing the candidate that we feel is most suitable for the job. Youth Consultation was involved in being a part of GPP which is the Greater Peterborough Partnership. This is a group of people involved in developing the city of Peterborough. Some of the issues that came out of the meeting were, “should Peterborough have a university?” and “should Peterborough expand its shopping area?” It was very interesting to see how all the people attending this meeting, which included the bishop of Peterborough and Gillian Beasley the Chief Executive of the council, reacted to our ideas and thoughts. They also gave us a good feeling that our being at the meeting was not tokenistic and our views were going to be taken into consideration. Also, Youth Consultation has been working on, and is still working on, the PYPIN project (Peterborough’s Young People’s Information Network). This is a network of computers in youth clubs, schools and libraries which will be a centre database for young people to get information quickly and efficiently. It has several things that it focuses on such as health, entertainment and housing.

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