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ELECTION RESULTS: A summary is available at https://oldhamyc.com/blog/2024/03/20/2024-internal-elections/ WELCOME, APOLOGIES & ICEBREAKERS (CHAIR) An icebreaker was held. MAKE YOUR MARK (CHRIS) Chris explained that 10,127 individuals participated in the recent Make Your Mark elections. The national issues ranking is as follows: Interestingly, international relations emerged in the top three across three schools, potentially influenced by…

INTRODUCTION AND REGISTERING PEOPLE TO VOTE (CLLR MUSHTAQ & CLLR CHARTERS) Unfortunately, the two councillors were unable to attend the meeting due to a pressing emergency. In their absence, youth councillors formed groups to delve into discussions on strategies for increasing voter registration. Notably, in England, individuals can register to vote at 16, although the…

INAUGURAL MEETING PREPARATION (CHRIS) Next week (17th Jan), new youth councillors will join the team. Chris expressed gratitude to Tom for staying behind during the count, until 9:30 pm, making him the last person present. With over 10,000 people voting, elections did not take place in the Oldham Central district due to a shortage of…

MAKE YOUR MARK – LOCAL ISSUES (CHRIS) Chris shared a list that covered everything we talked about in the last meeting, including the descriptions we discussed. He walked us through each item, checking if the wording was okay. After that, we Youth Councillors voted on our top issues from the 20 items. The goal was…

GREATER MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH (BETH) Beth, a research assistant at Greater Manchester Mental Health, joined our meeting to discuss their ongoing mental health research. She began by emphasizing that she could not provide medical advice but was here solely to share insights into their research. The focal point of her presentation was the youth cognitive…

GM TECH ED (KEVIN SCHOLEY) Kevin, an employee of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, led a discussion focused on streamlining pathways to further education beyond the conventional GCSE – A-Level – University trajectory. During the presentation, Kevin introduced a website (https://occupational-maps.instituteforapprenticeships.org/) providing detailed information on various careers. However, he acknowledged its text-heavy nature. Subsequently, he…

OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY (CLLR EDDIE MOORES)Eddie Moores came to the meeting to talk about the change in the scrutiny panel. Now there are four panels, with one panel focusing on children and young people, which is lead by Eddie Moores, and another one for adults and health (which does include children’s health). The overview and…

WELCOME (CHAIR) Isaac, the chair, greeted us, and started the meeting with an icebreaker. PPF CONSULTATION (J WIDDOWSON)Ms Widdowson came into the meeting – Oldham’s Cultural Partnership Board are currently working on constructing a bid for funds to create a new Young Cultural Producers Programme, which would offer young people paid, part-time (16hrs / week)…

ROLE DESCRIPTIONS AND PROPOSALS Chris begun the meeting discussing what each role does in Oldham Youth Council, in light of our upcoming elections for vice chair (22/02/2023), DMYP/MYP & GMYCA (08/03/2023) and Officers(22/03/2023). Youth councillors have been sent a detailed document about what each role is about, attached to anemail with the subject “Elections” sent…

PARTICIPATION FRAMEWORK Jodie (Head of Youth Service) was tasked by Oldham Council to write an Oldham Participation Framework for Children and Young People. It will be used to determine how all organisations working with children participation, and is written for professionals.Jodie asked Oldham Youth Council to help influence the framework, so our opinions are conveyed….