Call to Order

The Chairperson officially calls the meeting to order, welcoming all Youth Council members.

Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes 

Minutes from the previous Youth Council were distributed to the members on the 2nd of May and agreed on the 6th of May with some minor amendments suggested and added. 

Introductions on roll call

Roll call and introductions including name role, and a brief update on any recent activities or initiatives that they have been involved with in their area and any agenda items?   

• Yusuf – Chair (Chairing today’s meeting)
• Olivia – Vice Chair 
• Teigan – Vice Chair 
• Ali  
• Laibah
• Adham  
• Chloe  

All members introduced themselves and shared a fun fact!

Reporting and Presentation

Mary 

Keeping in touch and working together; the WhatsApp group is now set up

Its important that anything we discuss at the National Youth Council is taken back to local groups too by Rep’s

10 minutes 

Old business

• WhatsApp group – agreed (completed) 
• Linking in with local youth councils/ children’s groups (ongoing) 
• Youth Council logo – any takers – if not a national competition? (Teagan has designed something) 
• A digital video of the members – ongoing – we took a photo today 

New business

Requests from Management

1. Reviewing children’s review forms 
2. Interview questions ideas - for staff recruitment  
3. Annual satisfaction survey, best way to get feedback from children and young people
4. Reviewing our new suggested template for carer recordings – writing to the child
5. What do young people want to ask applicants who are being assessed?
6. Youth Panel questions at Skills to Foster
7. Reviewing the Children’s Guides
8. Training programme for young people – i.e. Presenting with Impact? 
9. Getting involved in recruitment 
10. What information would our young people like to receive when joining the Capstone group as part of their welcome to our agency? 
11. Explore the consultation process in joining or moving around Capstone? How can we improve on children/young people’s voice and views being taken into consideration in decision making?

New Ideas, projects, initiatives 

Children’s Feedback Forms for Reviews; the Survey Monkey 11-18 questionnaire was shared on screen; 

A question the group felt was important to ask was ‘how did you feel the first time you came into care’ and maybe compare this to now? 

They felt that the guides were a little bit childish, and the age gap was too wide i.e., 11 to 18. 

Suggested that the questionnaires should be split into 

11 to 15 and 16 to 18.

They felt the older age range questions could be much more open-ended and less questions would be better.

They felt that a blended approach to gaining feedback was good so perhaps through e-mail or through WhatsApp or even a telephone call which could be then written up by a worker. 

The question around bullying was not relevant to this form - carers and others should know if they're being bullied and they might be too embarrassed to answer this question here. They understood the need to ask a question about whether everything is OK and suggested a simple question maybe with emojis or something similar or how do you feel at the moment might be a good idea. 

Next Meeting

30/07/2024 – which is sooner than planned due to not having enough time to go through the forms and the number of projects that the Youth Council have been asked to look at.