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#YES (Youth Engagement Strategy)

Meeting: 22/01/2020 - Cabinet (Item 13)

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[To approve the Positive Engagement Strategy to provide a coordinated approach to opportunities for children and young people to engage positively]

Additional documents:

Decision:

1.     That the Youth Engagement Strategy, #YES, and the priorities identified by our children and young people (CYP) be endorsed.

 

2.     That funding be approved to deliver #YES including:

·      A new, city-wide youth engagement team to better connect CYP to opportunities.

·      A new fund for CYP to co-produce activities and events.

·      Better access to information and signposting for CYP and families.

Minutes:

Councillor John Reynolds presented for approval a new Youth Engagement Strategy (#YES), developed with the views of 12,000 city children and young people (CYP) at its heart.  Implementation of #YES would promote wellbeing, better connect young people to the city and give them a voice in shaping future opportunities.  The Strategy also set out the funding required to drive the strategy forward as part of a wider plan to deliver a better deal for CYP in Wolverhampton.

 

Resolved

1.   That the Youth Engagement Strategy, #YES, and the priorities identified by our children and young people (CYP) be endorsed.

 

2.   That funding be approved to deliver #YES including:

·           A new, city-wide youth engagement team to better connect CYP to opportunities.

·           A new fund for CYP to co-produce activities and events.

·           Better access to information and signposting for CYP and families