Youth4U Young Inspectors programme: are you interested in applying?

Applications are currently open to the Youth4U Young Inspectors programme. Agencies and children’s trust partnerships can apply to take part and lead on the involvement of young people in inspections of local services.

Youth4U Young Inspectors is a new national programme run by a consortium made up of the British Youth Council (BYC), Council for Disabled Children (CDC), KIDS, the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) and the National Children’s Bureau (NCB). The Look Listen and Change consortium (LLCC) aims to give young people the chance to look at services available in their area and give constructive advice to the people in charge of them and/or who commissioned them.

The purpose of this programme is:

To increase the numbers and quality of opportunities for marginalized young people to influence services
To help marginalized young people to engage their peers in influencing local policies and services across a wide range of issues; and
To enable young people to feed back their views and those of their peers to influence local authorities and other service providers.

The Young Inspectors programme will run for two years and will be rolled out across 36 local Children’s Trust areas across the country. The programme will support adult support workers in local authorities to recruit, train and support young people to investigate and assess how local services are doing and help them to improve things where they could be better. The young people will be given the opportunity to achieve an accreditation through the programme.

To be eligible young people have to be 13-19 years old or up to 25 if they have disabilities and/or learning difficulties.

The first round applications are currently being processed. Further applications are now being sought. Further information about the programme can be found here.

To request your information pack, please email enquiries@looklistenchange.org.uk.

The deadline for the receipt of applications is Wednesday 27 May 2009. Assessments will be made on Thursday 28 May 2009 and decisions will be released as soon as possible thereafter.

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