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Belfast City Council is establishing a Youth Forum to give young people an opportunity to raise issues of importance for them and to seek the Council’s support.
Belfast City Council is currently in the process of establishing a Youth Forum. The Youth Forum will act as a mechanism for consulting with young people and as a means of providing an opportunity for young people to raise and consider issues of importance for them and to seek the Council’s support in progressing these.
Young people in discussions with Lord Mayor in Council chamber
The Youth Forum will:
• be made up of up to 40, 13 to 18 year old young people (or up to age 21 for young people leaving care or who are disabled), from across the city, who will sit on the Forum for two years initially.
• meet in the Council Chamber in Belfast City Hall, on a monthly basis, with issue based subgroups also meeting once monthly.
• communicate with councillors through a cross party working group made up of representatives from each of the political parties with a special interest in young people’s issues; as well as through submitting reports to committee through the Children & Young People’s Coordinator.
It is the Council's intention to appoint young people to the Forum through a process of nomination and interview and it should be representative of young people across the city. The Council is keen to identify groups / organisations in the City, who would be interested in nominating a young person to be a member of the Youth Forum.
Nominations should be made by the end of January with a short pro forma to accompany the nomination. During February and March appointments will be made, with training and development during April and the first meeting in May.
Nominating bodies must:
• Be in the Belfast City Council area
• Currently work with young people aged between 13 and 18 (or up to 21 in the case of disabled young people or those leaving care)
• Be a recognised / constituted voluntary, community or statutory organisation.
• Not be a political organisation.
Organisations who have a citywide remit will be permitted to nominate one young person from each of the nine electoral areas.
The closing date for expressing interest as a nominating body is Monday 19 December 2005. It should be noted that if an expression is not received by this date, your organisation will be unable to nominate young people on to the Belfast City Council Youth Forum.
If your organisation is interested in becoming a nominating body please contact:
Chris Quinn, Children and Young People’s Coordinator
Belfast City Council, Community and Recreation Department, The Cecil Ward Building, 4 – 10 Linenhall Street, Belfast, BT2 8BP.
Craig Corrigan makes his opinions heard to Lord Mayor Pat Convery
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