{"id":7880,"date":"2022-11-10T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolverhamptonlabour.com\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2023-02-23T15:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T15:47:41","slug":"celebration-as-citys-youth-councillors-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/news\/celebration-as-citys-youth-councillors-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration as city\u2019s youth councillors elected<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A record number of young people have joined the City of Wolverhampton Youth Council this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 52 successful candidates \u2013 who attend schools across the city \u2013 were officially announced at a special event in the Council Chamber on Monday night (7 November, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Youth Council has been in operation in the city for over 20 years and the skills developed in the group are being passed on and built on, year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mayor of Wolverhampton Councillor Sandra Samuels OBE was joined by the City of Wolverhampton Council\u2019s Cabinet Member for Children and Young People Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Deputy Leader Councillor Stephen Simkins, Executive Director of Families Emma Bennett, Deputy Director of Commissioning and Transformation Andrew Wolverson and other councillors to welcome the new youth councillors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event, chaired by Youth Council Chair Tia Patel, provided an opportunity to reflect on some of the Youth Council’s recent achievements, including a record turnout in the recent Youth MP elections \u2013 the highest in the Midlands \u2013 which determined the subjects that the city\u2019s Youth MPs debated in the House of Commons during Parliament Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youth councillors have also helped develop the successful Yo! Wolves programme of activities for young people during the school holidays and contributed to the council’s #YES (Youth Engagement Strategy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Momenabadi said: “The City of Wolverhampton Council take the views of young people seriously and we are keen to co-produce the development of our services. I and my fellow councillors welcome the level of challenge and scrutiny the Youth Council provides.

\u201cIt was a pleasure to meet our new youth councillors and speak to them about what the role of being a councillor involves and we are really looking forward to working with them over the next 12 months.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


She added: \u201cOur Youth Council\u2019s reputation goes wider than Wolverhampton and they have again this year been actively involved on national forums, such as shaping policy on emotional wellbeing for young people. Meanwhile, our two Youth MPs, Greg McDonald and L\u2019shae Green, took part in last week\u2019s Youth Parliament Debate at the House of Commons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To contact the Youth Council, please email #YES@wolverhampton.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday\u2019s event marked the beginning of the national Youth Work Week, an opportunity to celebrate the positive impact the city\u2019s youth work has on young people now, and in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A record number of young people have joined the City of Wolverhampton Youth Council this year. The 52 successful candidates \u2013 who attend schools across the city \u2013 were officially announced at a special event in the Council Chamber on Monday night (7 November, 2022). The Youth Council has been in operation in the city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}