West Sussex Youth Cabinet Minutes
Date: 27/04/2015
Venue: Horsham Youth Centre
Chair – Precious Otor
Vice-Chair – Katherine Broadhurst
Treasurer - Alex Broadhurst
Treasurer - Ankona Charabotry
Secretary – Dominic Marks
Communications Team - Emma Hattersley
Communications Team - Abigail Slater
Communications Team - Megan Godfrey-Harris
Communications Team - Alfie Cooke
Attendance
Attendance Youth Cabinet
Apologies:
Hallum Cowell
Olivia Walmsley
Alan Dienst
Curtis Sheehan
Attendance UKYP
Kelly Balmer
Marvelous Jibogu
Stephen Gearing
Sebastian Maxted
Charlie Doherty
Daisy Stahl
Sibil Sabu
Georgre Myers
Ankona Charaborty
Riley Stroud
Bethany Brew
Eloise McQuillian-Graham
Emma Hattersley
Charlotte Walters
Jake Pettman
Aaron Alexander
Alex Broadhurst
Katherine Broadhurst
Abigail Slater
Spencer Kay
Guy Alford
Gugu Sibanda
Connor Buree
Charlotte Hudson
Luke Birch
Alice Fuller
Dominic Marks
Noah Davy
Gulshann Akhtar
Christine Johnson
Precious Otor
Chelsie King
Nadine Smith
Emese Cairns
Sofia Comper Cavanna
Megan Godfrey-Harris
Alfie Cooke
Nastasha Arbon-Stuckle
Beau Laroche
Workers
Claire Denby
Maddie Scutt
Stephanie Powell
Zoe Harding
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Guests
Carley Greenwood
Hajid Hussain
Eleanor-Hayward-Smith
Riley Stroud
Total Attendance Including Visitors and WSCC: 43
Minutes Item
6.00pm Welcome ad Apologies
Feedback & Updates
Youth Cabinet Group Agreement
6.10pm Group Agreement
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6.25pm Executive Role Elections
Action
Respect – Ideas & opinions, others, don’t talk over others,
personal space
Phones on silent during meetings
Encourage others to contribute – Be open and comfortable to
share your ideas
Listen to others
Team Player
Don’t discriminate
Smile
Be helpful & kind – Treats others how you want to be treated
Always do the right thing
Stay A-Political
Time Keeping – Ensure you turn up to meetings and keep to
times that have been agreed
Chair
V-Chair
Tile
Treasurer
Treasurer
Secretary
Communications
Team
Communications
Team
Communications
Team
Communications
Team
Name
Precious Otor
Katherine
Broadhurst
Alex Broadhurst
Ankona
Charabotry
Dominic Marks
Emma
Hattersley
Abigail Slater
Location
Crawley SE
Littlehampton
Megan
Godfrey-Harris
Alfie Cooke
East Grinstead
Littlehampton
Chichester
ZH to type up
group agreement
and send to
yourspace editor
ZH to type up and
email to SP
ZH to send to
yourspace editor
Horsham East
Barnham /
Westergate
Worthing
East Grinstead
7.00pm Feedback on meetings
dates and structure
All young people have agreed to attend 1 meeting a month,
expressed concerns about venue’s (Crawley) to far away to attend.
7.15pm Model of Youth Cabinet
Model Youth Cabinet:
Model 1 Mirror WSCC Adult Cabinet Themes,
• Economy & Place
• Children & Start Life
• Later Life, Health & Well being
Develop social action projects / campaigns that sit within either all or
one of these 3 areas.
Make links to the WSCC forward business plan,
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Meeting with Cabinet lead for each area to discuss business plan and
enable young people to have their voice heard on decision that impact
on them
Youth Cabinet voted on making this part of their role with
29 voting in favour, making this part of their role.
Model 2 Safeguarding Ambassadors
This is a virtual group who represent young people in West Sussex on
issues of their safety and wellbeing.
They will be responsible for gathering in information from range of
young people’s groups about whats important to them about their
safety and ensuring their concerns are raised with the adult
safeguarding board
This will be managed by the Youth Cabinet being the lead in gathering
the information, collating it and feeding it into the quarterly board
meetings to enable young people to have a voice and influence on the
board
Youth Cabinet voted on making this part of their role with
29 voting in favour, making this part of their role.
Model 3 Develop campaigns from Make Your Mark Results,
Over 7,286 young people across West Sussex voted on The Make Your
Mark ballot gives young people a say on what is discussed by their
Members of Youth Parliament (MYPs) in their annual House of
Commons debate.
The five topics that received the most votes in 2014 were
1. Living wage
2. Resit in maths and English
3. Work experience
4. Votes at 16
5. Mental Health Services
Youth Cabinet voted on making this part of their role with
34 voting in favour, making this part of their role.
Model 4 Youth Cabinet to link in with UK Youth Parliament
campaigns in the MYP constituencies areas
In November MYP choose their campaigns for the year in the annual
Houses of Common sitting.
These include:
1. Living Wage, Everyone should be paid at least the Living Wage
of £7.65 per hour (£8.80 in London). Anyone who works,
regardless of age, should have a decent standard of living.
2. Mental health services should be improved with our help. We
should all learn about common mental health issues at school
and negative
Youth Cabinet voted against making this part of their role
with only 3 voting in favour, this will not form part of their
role.
7.35pm Communication
How are we going to communication as a group?
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Email
Letter
Texts
Social media
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The group were happy to receive information in any way. We will
send letters out ahead of meetings and events but the rest of the
communication will be by email and text.
7.45pm Avril Wilson
Facebook group will be coming soon with Precious being given
more admin rights.
Plan and prep for Avril Wilson
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Dominic Marks
Katherine Broadhurst
Emma Hattersley
Precious Otor
Megan Godfrey-Harris
Alfie Cooke
Noah Davy
Alex Broadhurst
Ankona Charaborty
Abigail Slater
Nadine Smith
Marvelous Jibogu
CD to contact PO
to arrange prep
meeting
SP / ZH to email
young people
attending prep
meeting
7.50pm Feedback & Wrap Up
Date and Venue of sub group meeting
Wednesday 13th May 2015, 6:00pm-7:00pm Horsham Youth Centre
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