Issue - meetings

(a)              Welcome to the pupils from Winsley Primary School. The pupils had some questions for members which would be raised later in the meeting.

(b)               The Committee’s next meeting, previously scheduled for Thursday 10 June, had been re-scheduled to take place on Tuesday 8 June 2010.  Apologies were given for any inconvenience this may have caused.

(c)               Elections for the Wiltshire Assembly of Youth (WAY) and the UK Youth Parliament took place in February.  Over 32,000 votes were cased in Wiltshire, representing more than 60% of all young people in the county.

Six Wiltshire members were elected to the UK Youth Parliament and nine to the Wiltshire Assembly of Youth.

Chris King, the Committee’s young people’s representative, still had one year remaining of his three year term for WAY and had chosen not to stand for the UK Youth Parliament this year due to exams coming up in the summer.

(d)               At the Committee’s January meeting members received an update on progress with Local Collaborative Partnerships (LCP) and some members expressed concern regarding their future funding after Central Government funding ceased in 2011.

The Head of LCPs, Mark Brotherton, had extended the invitation to advisory group meetings to all members of this committee to allow continual input from scrutiny and hopefully allay some members’ concerns over future funding.

The Group’s next meeting was yet to be scheduled but Henry Powell would circulate details once known.

Following Chairman’s Announcements, questions were received from the Winsley School pupils.  A copy of the questions and answers can be found appended to these minutes. Pupils were encouraged to send any further questions to the committee who would endeavour to answer them. The Chairman thanked the pupils for attending the meeting.

The Chairman thanked the pupils for attending the meeting.