West Sussex Youth Cabinet

The West Sussex Youth Cabinet is a group of young locality representatives and the 4 UK Youth Parliament representatives, who are democratically elected by young people from all around West Sussex. The Youth Cabinet represents the views of the young people in their areas at county level.
The project is currently in its 9th year and works closely alongside the County Council and the Youth Service.
Elections
West Sussex Youth Cabinet Runs elections every year in March. The elections for West Sussex Youth Cabinet are run along side the elections for UKYP. Elections in 2012 run from the 1st March 2012 at 8 am to the 30th March 2012 at 8pm.
UKYP
West Sussex elects 4 representatives for UKYP With constituencies being divided as follows-
Chichester and West Arun
East Arun, Adur and Worthing
Crawley and East Grinstead and
Horsham and Mid Sussex
Campaigns
West Sussex Youth Cabinet runs campaigns which aim to better the lives of young people in West Sussex.
Some campaigns that have been run by the West Sussex Youth Cabinet are:
SRE Campaign- a campaign to include more adequate sex and relationships education in schools and to raise general awareness among young people about various ways to stay safe and healthy whilst having a sexual relationship.
Pol-Ed campaign- A campaign to have Politics introduced into the curriculum. Run alongside ]'s own Pol-Ed campaign.
Safe Card Scheme- a scheme designed to help young people with disabilities if they ever get into trouble, weather that be with the law or in other situations.
West Sussex County Council introduced a card called the 3-in-1 card which allows young people to receive subsidized bus fares and other subsidized services. The 3-in-1 card was designed and created by the West Sussex Youth Cabinet in order to help young people to cope with excessive fees and prices. Several other LEA's have also piloted similar schemes throughout the UK

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu