Issue - meetings

The Member of Youth Parliament or a representative on his behalf will update the Panel on this matter.

The Strategic Planning Officer for Children's Health & Commissioning gave the Panel an update on this item. She informed them that a partnership had been agreed with the Cultural Forum and that young people were now directly involved in discussions over priority areas to work on and formed part of a steering group. She added that young people were seeking to become more involved in the decision making processes of the Council.

She said that a number of funding applications had been made in an attempt to be able to engage more widely with young people.

Councillor Dine Romero commented that she had discussed the matter of having young people as regular consultees with the Democratic Services department.

Councillor Liz Hardman asked how inclusive was the membership of the steering group.

The Strategic Planning Officer for Children's Health & Commissioning replied that it included representation of the Young People’s Equalities Group, Youth Forum and the Member of Youth Parliament.New members included a young carer and young people from Mentoring Plus. She added that she expected the membership of the group to grow.

On behalf of the Panel the Chair thanked her for the update.