Presentation: Malcolm Dechaun, Children’s Rights & Participation Officer
Minutes:
Dechaun Malcolm, children’s rights and participation officer, along with the young people and representatives of SpeakerBox provided an update to committee:
Presentation:
· Mentoring for care leavers – over 1,000 young people participated, this was a significant increase to last year
· The Care Free kitchen – young people mentioned it was memorable especially after meeting Jay Rayner (journalist /food critic) which helped them with their skills.
Positive outcome for young people
· An opportunity for young people to develop new skills
· Confidence in public speaking
Looking ahead – questions asked of the young people
· Being a representative of SpeakerBox had given them confidence
· Provided an opportunity to work along professionals
· Young people (care leavers) should have a say rather than adults deciding what happens to young people
· To rebrand the SpeakerBox website and undertake more outreach work.