Yesterday I attended the Beacon Youth Centre along with around 60 young people from Worsley, Walkden and Little Hulton for a Youth Forum event. The Council is rightly looking at ways to involve children and young adults in the decision-making process, and yesterday’s event was intended to encourage those attending to get involved further.
Along with my colleague Cllr Christine Gray, I was asked to host one of the workshops on local government and local democracy. I’m very grateful to Patrick from Bridgewater Youth Centre who ran the workshop with us and to the Community Development Worker Chris Tucker who joined us and provided valuable input.
The main thrust of our workshop was to find out some of the issues that concerned children and young adults in the local area, and then get across some of the ways in which they can get involved and make the changes they want to see. As is often the case, I learned a lot from the discussions myself. I am always keen to hear the opinions of local residents - whatever their age - on the issues that affect our local community and it is always refreshing to hear difference perspectives.
There were a number of workshops on the day, including the police, ranger service, youth service, sports development officers and the drug and alcohol action team.
At the end of the workshops, all those attending were given a post-it note and asked to write down one thing they had learned from the day.
The picture on the right shows my favourite note.
It was also really pleasing to see that most of those attending signed up to hear about future events.
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