Services offered by the Youth Participation Team

Services offered by the Youth Participation Team

Advocacy support

An advocate is not part of social services, but will ensure that a young person’s voice is heard and acted upon by decision-makers with choices that affect their lives. If a young person is unhappy about a decision that has been made about their care, our advocacy service can help make a complaint.

Independent Visiting Service

Independent Visitors are volunteers who befriend and support children in care. They are specially selected and trained so that they are safe and appropriate for young people. They make a commitment for two years minimum and will visit their young person once every two weeks and take part in activities like day outings.

Youth Voice

Creating opportunities for all young people who have been in care to be involved in influencing, shaping, designing and contributing to the development of services and programmes for young people.

Programmes include:

Accreditation

The Youth Participation Team runs an accessible accreditation scheme, the Arts Award

Youth Council

At the Youth Council, we ensure that young people are able to get their views recognised on serious issues that affect them. 

This includes running campaigns and being represented in the UK Youth Parliament and on local authority boards and committees, such as the Youth Cross Party Working Group and Children and Young People’s Skills Committee.