Issue - meetings

The Committee will receive an update on the activities of the WAY presented by James Wilkins, Children’s & Young People’s representative.

This report will be published as an agenda supplement prior to the meeting date.

The Committee received a report which set out a summary of activities of the Wiltshire Assembly of Youth (WAY) during the period April to August 2017.

It was noted that WAY organised its activities according to its Agenda for Action which had the following five priorities:-

·                     Priority 1: Improve emotional wellbeing and mental health support for young people  Attention was drawn to the design of an illustrative interpretation of this service to assist children, families and professionals in understanding the service. A film clip had also been prepared for the home page of the www.onyourmind.org.uk website. Members requested that copies of the briefing slides previously received by this committee on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services be recirculated.

·                     Priority 2: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education  No specific work had been carried out in this period, although the link with the Healthy Schools had been maintained and young people would be reviewing the next round of applications for Healthy School status as well as having input into a review of the standards.    

·                     Priority 3: Bullying  WAY members were working on the development of podcasts which would be available during Anti-Bullying Week 2017 (13-17 November). These recordings would consider specific themes and areas of concern, such as racial discrimination and the causes of bullying. It was suggested that area boards be informed of initiatives that were being planned in their areas. .It was also requested that the WAY update to 31 October include an update on anti-bullying.

·                     Priority 4: Public Transport  It was noted that WAY had been holding discussions about transport issues and that they had a number of issues as set out in the report. WAY intended to raise the profile of these issues and arrangements were being made for representatives to attend a meeting with bus company representatives in Salisbury.  WAY also intended o convey its concerns to members of the Youth Safeguarding Board at a joint meeting later in this month. A progress report would be made back to this Committee in due course.

Resolved:

To note the update from the Wiltshire Assembly of Youth (WAY).