| Representatives from Dundee City Council’s education and leisure and communities departments met with members of Dundee Youth Voice and the Scottish Youth Parliament to decide on how the process should move forward.
A consultation exercise will be prepared with the aim of setting the “composition, structure and role/remit” of the Youth Council and the opinions of schools, youth projects, charities, ethnic minority organisations and disabled groups will be canvassed until June, to provide a sample of the issues the new council could address.
Youth Council members will have the opportunity to attend city council meetings and learn how the Dundee system works. Lord Provost John Letford will chair the steering group to report recommendations to the council.
Matthew Landsburgh of Grove Academy and the Scottish Youth Parliament said it was important to provide a “voice for the youth” of the city, while Andrew MacQueen, chairman of Dundee Youth Voice, said, “It is time for the youth of Dundee to be included in the decision making process.” |
